856 Comments for Rockland Psychiatric Center

I read Peat Moss' comment and couldn't help reflecting over it... I think it's a pity asylums everywhere is getting shut down and just abandoned and the patients just thrown out into the streets again. Many of them falls into homelessness instead of having roofs over their heads in an asylum. At least where I live (Sweden) there used to be an extensive mental care throughout the 20th century, but in the eightees they started to shut the asylums down everywhere, and todays psychic care is nothing more than a joke compared to what used to be. Since the mental care here more or less has been laid down (they only treat the absolutely worst psychopaths) the maniacs and psychos runs around everywhere and sets things on fire, rapes people, or even commiting homicides, etcetera. The belief that the patients will recover better living free to do anything they want is strong. But they refuse to see it's downside, that mentally ill people can't always control themselves.

The city next to mine used to be only a small village with only a couple of hundred residents until the early 1900's when they started to build the massive insane asylum there that would house more patients than the entire citys population. If it wouldn't have been for this asylum the town would still only be a little village today I think. You could say that it's the asylum that built the entire city. The original asylum had a capacity of about 1500 patients max, it has now been replaced with a new single building that can take as much as 110 patients. I find it to be very upsetting that they don't take this more seriously!!!! It's better for everyone if there would be a well developed mental care that has room for all mentally ill, they get roof over their heads and care and the rest of soceity will get calmer.

Oh man that is so awesome! It even has decorative lists on the side of the top! Nowadays it seems no one cares to put an effort into making things beautiful and decorated like they did just a couple of decades ago.

I feel like home when watching this one... A nice feeling in this great picture!

Anyone know how I can get a tour of this place?

This would be all too tempting to sit down and go through this stuff. Being the pack rat I am, I would probably be stuffing what I could in my car. Very very sad but it's a fact of life. I had a job where I would type up estate appraisals after someone died and all I could think of was 'this is what life is about"? You live, accumulate things, then croak and then some stranger goes through your stuff and says this is worth $2, this is worth $5. We should have more respect for the dead.

Would make a nice buffet table

The reason these are left behind I believe is because they weigh a TON and trying to find someone to move them is a bitch. They cost a lot to buy but try and sell one. I had a 1910 Francis Bacon upright grand player piano that was in fantastic shape and everyone loved. But it weighed 1,000 pounds. I could not sell it or get someone to move it. One guy offered to charge me only $50 and he would "take it away". I ended up leaving it when I moved which broke my heart because it was a beautiful instrument. My father had several of these organs in his life and he always had the same problem. He paid a lot out for them, but then got stuck in the end.

This is a heart-rending photograph!

In an institution that housed thousands of people, the tracking down of next of kin in which to return these items would not have been feasible.

This image pays silent tribute to the thousands of people who passed through the doors of this institution.

show respect to belongings of those long past

you're making me hungry

"Strong Trouper"

O_____0 Woah. Clown Rapist.

"I want to go home! Take of this uniform and leave the show! i´ve been waiting in this cell because I Have to know! Have I been guilty all this time!" - Pink Floyd, The Wall

Looks like two people were up on the balcony ? Were you by yourself Mr. Motts?

'Music For The Recently Deceased'
- I Killed The Prom Queen.