4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

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A THEATRE! YAY! WOW I LOVE THIS THEATRE. IN THE OTHER PICS IN THE OTHER GALLERIES OF NORTHAMPTON OF THE THEATRE, THE DETAILS OF THE LEADED GLASS, THE WOOD WORK, AND THE CURVE OF THE BALCONY IS SO BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE THIS THEATRE!
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ALL OF THE LITTLE SLOTTS IN THE DIAMONDS ARE DIFFERENT, SOME SMALL, SOME BIG...
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WOW. IF YOU LOOK AT THE FLOOR... YOU CAN SEE MARKS, OR MORE LIKE DRAGING MARKS, LIKE SOMETHING-ONE HAS BEEN DRAGED ON THE FLOOR...
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WOW FANTABULOUS PIC! I ALSO LOVE YOU MOTTS!
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Also, check out these pages for information on "The Village at Hospital Hill"

http://www.bealsandthomas.com/Project/1700Northampton.htm
http://www.calthorpe.com/Project%20Sheets/northampton.htm
(thanks Ply!)
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I definitely see where you are coming from Mariposa, and Silkster as well. I think that causes for mistreatment were that these types of illnesses were just not understood. People just didn't know what to do. And they still are not completely understood. Having suffered with bad anxiety for most of my life, I've been treated by many different people. Nothing ever warranted me to a hospital, but I have found that if you haven't suffered one of these illnesses yourself, you just can't understand. Sometimes I get really mad by things people say - like "breathe deeply" and then you'll be fine. Uh, no! That may work for the average person who's nervous before a test, but breathing deeply isn't going to solve all your problems. But back to what I was saying, people tend to fear the unknown - back in the day I'm sure many staff were fearful of some of the patients, not knowing what to expect of their action. I don't think most mistreatment was out of malicious intent - they just didn't know what to do. However, within the last half century or so, as new scientific developments have advanced, these illnesses are better understood, so treatment has greatly improved. I agree with Silkster in the fact that we often look at these pictures from a patients' point of view. It must be awful to be stuck in an instition all your life no matter how nice people are. And the illness in itself is enough. I don't care if I was in Candyland, the illness makes you suffer.

As for the specters that we spot in the photos, we are, for the most part, having fun. Of course there's definitely something that we see, but its enjoyable to discuss such. Who's know whether its real or not, its fun for the imagination.
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~no more pencils~
~no more books~
~no more teachers' dirty looks~
Ahh, that song, my mantra of the past few years. (anyone ever see the music video? kinda gory...I was Hard Rock cafe eating a meal and it was playing on one of the TV's...needless to say I wasn' t too hungy any more.) But now I find college is much more satisfying considering you're pretty much free to do as you choose.
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Glenn Quagmire is Peter Griffin's Perverted, oversexed neighbor.
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OK, so am I to assume that the word "quagmire" is somehow related to Family Guy as is the phrase about "Gigadee"?
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The yellow stuff was just pudding!! ;-)
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No, I haven't, but I was reading an article that referred to that very thing just the other day:

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

By the way, the article was written a year ago and predicted almost exactly what recently happened in New Orleans.
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Gigadee Gigadee Gigadee!
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~~We don't need no education~~
~~We don't need no thought control~~
~~No dark sarcasm in the classroom~~
~~Hey teacher leave us kids alone~~
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Makes me wonder, what year was it when this clocked stopped at 9:42 and 31 seconds? (a.m or p.m)???
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You Can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!