3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

so any excat date on when the hospital was built? and how long is it, in terms of like feet or inches or somthing, cuase the pics made it seem like the hosiptal was pretty dam big....???

i would so love 2 live there, with the addition of a couple new paint coats, and some lamps

I wonder f its for sale...

Wow. From the tumbnail, it looked as though this were some sort of architectural person; the angles of the walls form the shoulders, and the windows are eyes.

It seems so sad...the photographer caught the emotions well...I'm not going to lie, i'm kind of scared just by looking at all of these pictures...

Its a shame what this building has become!!!

Thanks Lynne for stepping in on the "crazy" label.

You are very right. If someone is going to use this label on me (as a mentally ill person), they need to have earned that right by their awareness of what I deal with every minute of my life. This is a person who is respectful, supportive, and accepting. They are also individuals who "get it" by knowing that they never truly will fully "get" the personal mental illness experience.

Thanks again Lynne,
From a Random "CRAZY" Person Living in the Age of Deinstitutionalization

P.S.
As an individual that has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals over the past decade... please know that the majority of staff members are individuals who are trying the best they can to help the patient in a difficult situation.

is this like a movie or like WHAT?!

Crazy people and the people who did horrible things to 'em! =8-o

People with psychiatric issues don't generally prefer to be called "crazy" unless they say it about themselves to someone who "gets it", and the majority of people who work with folks with psychiatric issues are not abusive torturers.

[sigh . . . . . . ]

very creepy picture. the graffiti is almost terrifying. awesome angle.

this picture creeps the hell out of me. but i LOVE it. <3 so sad though.

makes it all to real that *crazy* people actually lived there. not to mention the horrible things they did to them.

looks like the begining....or end, to a scary movie.

Thanks Lynne -- after spending last Friday afternoon bored to tears here at work, I finally figured them out after going through several of the Opacity sites. the puking one would have stumped me, though!!

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