856 Comments for Rockland Psychiatric Center

Very Kubrick.

the "high rise" looks very interesting.

Very Nice.

Made me think of "Futurama"

It's taken 9 years but at last I get first comment on a gallery!

Looks like yesterday...

Ooohh!! & Aaahh!! It's so purty!

Great picture! But I wanna know this: What bozo would paint à psch ward red in the first place!? Not thinking straight themselves if you ask me.

Oh my goodness. As a filmmaker I can see so much potential for a film in just this picture and the description. This would make an insanely intriguing and heartfelt film. Thank you Motts for taking time and energy to go out and bring back so many treasures for us to view and understand, and also to inspire us.

They have these rooms in the public grade schools in Oregon. They lock children they are too stupid to be able to engage with in them and say they were being dangerous to themselves.

Some hispitals still have padded rooms, the last two hospitals I have been to for treatment of schizphrenia had a padded room in each of there four "pods" a pod being a bank of rooms with a sitting area. Seeing this even this from the side shot of a padded room made me remember the fear I had about ever being locked in one my self if I was having one of my worse episodes, not being able to determine if what you are experiencing is real or not and being stuck in a room where it is just you and your thoughts is kind of frightening to me. It's weird to think that if I were born half a centry earlier I would be living in one of these places has be a little troubling

very sad..

one of the best .make great album artwork

Ha my friends in one cause hes scuicidal im scared for him

Kay-r, what you say is interesting. You are right that to compare cataplexy with mental illness is comparing apples to oranges.

I have the disorder cataplexy, a symptom of the more familiar sleep disorder Narcoplepsy. Cataplexy is very similiar to being in a straght jacket- in a padded room left with nothing, other than your thoughts. Any strong emotion (laughing, anger, sadness) results in a complete loss of muscle control. Physically I am paralyzed, mentally I am wide awake. So basically it's like being trapped in a room with your thoughts. This is not as horrible as one may think. In the episodes in which I could not move, lasting minutes at times, once I dismissed movement as an option I could move again. One difference is that I was still aware of my surroundings- which in a padded room you are not- but like this method of punishment, as much as I'd like to tell people I'm fine, I cannot deliver the message. I regain control the instant I stop reacting emotionally. Placing someone in a straight jacket in certain situations may serve the same purpose.Depriving someone of all physical control might possibly be the only way tor them to prevent emotion from controlling them.