4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

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and the memorial complex is also demolished as of october 2008
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i was supposed to look for music and the music site was out , i was bored and found this cool place. im telling my friends about it.
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Anyone that has been a regular on Opacity knows that Motts' is fascinated with anything that he finds from the former patients. great picture motts.
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Unfortunately these places have a stigma to them. They are full of negative energy and people don't want to fix them up and live in them or use them because of the negative lingering energy from years and years of dispair and gloom.
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This place is definately an ancient hospital.
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The stains are most likely "rust from within" the door itself.
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Once you were put in there you probably never came out and if you did you were a vegetable.
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omg! that is so creepy!
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this is amazing
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Has anyone seen the movie called "Madhouse"? It´s sooo cool and very frightening. Go rent it :-)
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when viewing these photos i only resond with compassion to suffering humaity which is crying out for help. i respond wity no fear; only love altruism and undderstanding,
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This was absolutely beautiful and emotionally powerful. I have been to the hospital before- I live in Northampton, and I think you captured a lot of its aura in these photos. Your model is gorgeous and very expressive. Fantastic!
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I think the walls are bleeding!
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For those of you wondering what happened to the severely mentally ill after de-institutionalization, well, many have found their way into the prison system. The mentally ill inmate population quadrupled in the past 20 years in GA. I worked as mental health counselor in the prison system for 6 years (2002-2008) and saw many men (and women) who, fifty years ago, due to the severity of their mental illness, would have been hospitalized for the rest of their lives. Very sad really.
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I am out in the world, working on a successful career and family because people like Lynne cared for me and about me and helped me conquer my own illness. I'll never be free of it, but they gave me the confidence and the skills to know that I don't have to let it define who I am or limit who I can be.