856 Comments for Rockland Psychiatric Center

You sound as though you speak from experince? I have seen many pic's of asylums, but funny none of them i could see padded rooms in them. Mostly what I have seen is seclusion rooms.

Just FYI, the area behind the lattice work is usually used for pipes (for a pipe organ) in older theathers, and for speakers in more modern ones.

There were grates over the lamps in my old schools in the gyms. The theaters I worked at typically had ceilings too high for most to throw things at accuraetly. (I had to change a few of those bulbs from a ladder.) We didn't have the stadium seating, but I've noticed in most theaters that do, the lights don't go all the way to the back of the theater anymore.

This gym/theater is in amazing shape. Those things over the doorways remind me of the speakers we had in a church I attended years back.

OMG that's awesome!

Padded rooms are awful, no where near as fun as they look onbce you are locked in and can't escape.

How sad to be so alone. There wasn't even anyone who could decide to toss their stuff.

This is so sad. The message speaks of such desparation and a feeling of being forgotten. The person simply wanted to go home, but no one listened or probably cared. It really brings tears! It also speaks of someone so just lost and separated from everything that they loved.

The music is probably blow the man down or some kind of sea shanty. Or its an add for Captain Black pipe tobacco.

The date of the photo would be of interest given the attitude toward people who were gay back 'in the day'. Before the American Psychiatric Association (A.P.A.) denounced the belief homosexuality was considered a mental disorder, it was common for gay people to be admitted into such establishments. Being gay myself, I'm very glad that isn't the case. Otherwise, it might have well been a drawing of my own making! It would be interesting to know how many gay people were victims of this ignorance in the past. You're probably looking at a drawing created by a perfectly sane person who was forced into the confusion that ignorance only brings!

For some reason, this image reminds me of some of the scenes from the movie Blair Witch 2. It reminds me of the entrance and the first time the old factory is introduced in the script.

Artistic grue. Very Escheresque.

Its like this in the hospital i work at too rich. The lobby is all hard wood floors with massive, beautiful fish tanks everywhere, and the patient floors look like a fifties nightmare gone wrong, lol

The contrast between areas the public would see (ornate and expensively decorated) and the plain, utilitarian wards and treatment rooms is always striking.

where the heck are the glass blocks when you need them 8-0

Ha! :-)