856 Comments for Rockland Psychiatric Center

"in joy your " is all that I can make out

im gonna be sick

It says something...

Very small. At the top.... Motts, do you have the original, full quality? Maybe get that photo, zoom in and take a look. what does it say?

My take on it is that the one girl was pointing out to the other that she still had some broccoli on her teeth. Sometimes there are things that only your bestest girlfriend will tell you.

Note the interaction between the two girls behind her.

Oh, Schindler's List. Heartwrenching movie.

But this shot is beautiful. It really is.

Check out the Willard State Hospital exhibition on suitcases of former residents who died and whose belongings were never claimed. Fascinating, if a little one-sided and heavy on the bathos. I dislike that because it reduces people to pitiful one-dimensional victims and robs them of their true humanity, but that's just me. It's certainly less stressful to look at life in black-and-white . . .

Barbara,
That's an interesting thought... if a patient happend to wander into the abandoned area of the hospital.... especially if its connected somewhere by a hallway. Probably the first thought that would come to my mind might be - this is the " Snake Pit ".

There are many reasons why family didn't claim ones belongings.Those belongings where discarded just like the people whom owned them. The state didn't care about them and still don't. The only voice those people have is what lies in there. It would be nice if someone doing a family tree could have that person's things. But who really cares enough to take the time to gather, place in order and list names on a website. Just names so that these people could be remebered or hell even found by a family. Photo's like this upset me. There sets history and the real truth about life in a mental hospital and we just leave it and forget just like everyone else. Thanks for listening.

Although the chances of it happening are slim to none, still I can't help to wonder what a patient would think if they wandered into one of these areas. I also can't imagine residing in a building connected to something so abandoned. Yet if I wasn't a hospital patient, I might consider it quite nice to be able to go exploring so easy! But It think it would ultimately creep me out.

Poor things...

How nice...

This is the saddest picture yet! Such memories cast aside....

It would be interesting to see the active parts and compare it to the abandoned part....

I think many people in this wing or even this hospital were geriatric, so maybe they would still have belongings from these eras.