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I'd rather climb dirty stairs than ride a clean elevator

i allmost went throw the roof in the back buildn my freind grab me y i was falln nice
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So . . . I am guessing you might not appreciate this?

People.... it's just a website! it's just pictures! Stop bowing before it, it's getting annoying.

My post was written a month or two back when I still had enough energy to try to deal with peoples' negativity and lack of attempt to see that there was also a positive side to the field, both historically and presently. I have spent many hours hoping to get people to see a more rounded picture and not a one-sided picture, such as is commonly portrayed in the media and only attended to by most of the public if there is something gruesome or terrible involved. Like everything else, the field has changed as our knowledge base has increased.

However, I admit that I have had so many people try to argue me out of this larger more objective viewpoint that I don't care anymore. Yes, we have had so much in the way of "art is in the eye of the beholder" here that I might as well join along with the rest of the people. So I offer this as my humble part toward apologizing for trying to paint a larger, more hopeful picture of where we have been and where I hope to see us going. I will now stop trying to be objective and will start demonizing the entire field and admitting that there was never anything good that happened ever even one time no I'm not kidding what a bunch of evil-doers bad bad people shame on you all.

Yes, that cute little bear belonged to some perfectly fabulous child who would have been fine if he had not been kidnapped by the bad institution staff http://www.opacity.us/...ows.htm#comment_5907 (or placed there by an obviously unloving family because who but a pervert would abandon their child to such a hellhole? http://www.opacity.us/...ib.htm#comment_5334.) This child was starved and forced to work out in the "torture room of weight reduction," http://www.opacity.us/...ss.htm#comment_27916 and then they dangled the teddy bear in front of him, sneering that he would never see it again.http://www.opacity....ange_bathroom.htm#comment_27931

Then they did experiments on him - hideous, unspeakable tortures that we can only dream of.
http://www.opacity.us/...ub.htm#comment_31014 http://www.opacity.us/...ame.htm#comment_8435

Then they put him in a hydrotherapy bath for weeks at a time, full of ice cold water and ice cubes.
http://www.opacity.us/...py.htm#comment_13309
http://www.opacity.us/...te.htm#comment_16897

Then when his little body could hold on no longer, they probably burned him in the crematorium that was handily attached to every single residential facility that was ever built ("just in case").
http://www.opacity.us/...ts.htm#comment_34248
http://www.opacity.us/...ck.htm#comment_34808
http://www.opacity.us/...nt.htm#comment_19205

And with all those hand-dandy coffins lying about, they could just zip him away with no one the wiser.
http://www.opacity.us/...raw.htm#comment_1713

Yeah, I guess you are right - art IS in the eye of the beholder.

i can just imagine a little Lolita girl sitting in one of those cups!! In case no one knows what lolita is its a japanese thing

It kind of makes me think of a patient kneeling to pray and looking up at the sky.

i can't believe only one other person commented on this so far!! I think its hauntingly hopeful. If that makes any sense.

if you stare at it out of the corner of your eye the clouds look like they are moving!
awesome

lynne.... dont you think that art is in the eye of the beholder, as a former mental health student i can understand your point of veiw on this subject matter..... but the history of mental health practice IS one of the nastiest sides of medicine and horrid and terrible thing DID occur, granted this was often the result of incredibly low funding and low staffing combined with a lack of understanding on how to treat patients, regardless, it did happen. The best we can do is to learn from the past, admit that mistakes were made and work towards better care for those who require it........ and whos to say the teddy bear wasnt a beloved chum to some child?

does anyone else see the finger/hand prints on the little window on the door?

I grew up in Granby and my mother worked for a company affiliated with BSS.I remember playing on that stage during a tour when I was 5 years old in 1976. In the 80's we would go to the school on Haloween and freak ourselves out. Dumb kids

anyone read Mervyn Peake? In his Gormenghast novels this would positievly have to be one of Fushcia's attics!! Wonderful.

my favorite picture indeed.

It's a beutifull proy, the focus is excellnt, the old time is here. i like me.