338 Comments for Springfield State Hospital

Surreal photo. Lynne is sorely missed. Her "rants" were always insightful, educational, thoughtful & very well written. She was a vault of knowledge and made Opacity three dimensional, often with views from the "other side of the coin" when it came to health care providers at mental health facilities. The ignorant & uninformed dared not engage in a battle of wits with our Miss Lynne for she could dismantle such in one or two sentences leaving the challenger battered & bruised & schooled. And it was glorious to read. I hope she's doing well & returns soon.

Vince, very well said. It is also upsetting to me that someone who has an illness that would cause them to do something like that is wandering around not being treated. Very sad.

As disgusting as this is it is also an indicator of a deep psychological problem and in that it is very sad. A large number of the homeless community are homeless do to there mental instability. Take for instance people suffering from schizophrenia. In many cases they ether end up in prison or homilies. It is such an irony that this type of vandalism happened in an old state hospital considering the Reagan administration started a mass closing of state hospitals back in the 80's as a means of cutting the budget for as they looked at it unneeded hospitals. Well i better git off politics here it just frustrates me. They let the equipment rot in the hospital but close the place to save money forcing the mentally ill out on the streets to git pick up by the police which just costs more money and helps no one.

Now medically speaking there are a few mental conditions that carry this symptom and with out evaluating the individual this would be hard to determine but in some who suffering from dementia/alzheimer's this can surface in the last stage of the disease. This is just an assumption for there are a whole list of conditions that can have this characteristic. Ether way it is just sad and scary to think there is this disturbed person running around instead of getting help.

Clearly crafted by someone more skilled in the art of poop smearing.

That is incredibly disturbing. Something about the mix of illness and fecal matter. Well really.. the mix of anything and fecal matter.

Thanks Mr. Motts! Again, I was so happy to see a new gallery today. What a great place!

The dreaded "mold damage". Yuck. (I hope you had your mask on!). :)

Stunning! What a great idea, Motts! Love that we can see those stripe in the suitcase. Love the light coming out, love this shot!

Well put Lady and Ferdy. I actually thought that was dust until I read your description.

I LOVE this! I'm also a fan of stairs, great picture!

Wow! A new gallery! Thank you Mr. Motts! A beautiful photo with the rose colors & fading light.

A splash of color, LOL Mr. Motts! Like Michelle said, I feel like I should be roller skating...perhaps while wearing an old Astro's jersey? ;-D

The columns are so beautiful! What a wonderful picture!

I love everything about this! I agree with Lady, it does look very warm and inviting in there. Seeing the other building through the window is so wonderful, Specter is a perfect name for this. Great shot!

Cool shot, I like the reflection of the door in the window. (If it is indeed a reflection...)