3,287 Comments for Danvers State Hospital

I love that this remained after all those years of being uninhabited. I'm sure the patient never thought that outside people would find what inspired him/her so fascinating.

I can't stop coming back to these photos and looking at them over and over again. DSH is what got me into UE, and while I never got to see her in all of her original glory, the building holds a lot of meaning for me. It's such an amazing place, and it's a real shame that she's gone.

Well that didn't post right. What I meant to say is the larger part of our hall bathroom is painted a shade of blue just a bit darker than this door and isn't at all depressing, in fact it is calming. The smaller section of our bathroom, the W/C with the tub and toilet is painted white with that god awful gold tile from the 70s and is drab and depressing more so than the blue, larger room in our bathroom

Part of our hall bathroom, the larger room with the sink and counter and closet is painted a lovely shade of blue a bit darker than this, it isn't at all depressing rather it is c.Ww, the smaller room holding the tub and toilet is white with 70s god tile and I think is more depressing and blah then th blue section of our bathroom.

Yummmmmmmm, paint chips with a nice mold dip... Anyone want a late night snack?

Personally I bElivieve that is wrong for people to be put in an asylum. they didnt choose to be challenged they were born like that or it came out of the blue either way its pat down from genes given to them from one or both of the parents and i dont understand how people can pretty much cherish the workers, ive read many of patients notes and they werent treated fairly Mari. Ive read that some punishments were to stay in a room with a tub full of water trapped in there for hours. all they had to do it yell or scream. when you are challenged thats what you do its kind of like and instinct. its no one's place to try to chanbge them it how they are and its how they should stay. i ve also read that they had punishments such a thing called pack. wich was described as there was a metal bed in a small room they took mulltiple frozens sheets and wrapped u tightly in them and strapped you on a bed i dont see where that is fair at all.. id love to hear comments back on whether u agree or disagree.

I loved Danvers but they demolished stupid ediots.

Did they use a crane to demolish the medical building or a wrecking ball?

That is a copper roof.

is that the chair from session 9 where they say do it gordy?

If I witnessed that in real life, in the dark with a flashlight, I'd be in a coma right now.

Wow! Amazing! It makes you want to run far away, escape this place.... run into the sunset,,,,far away....

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Well I do my practice and soon work in much smaller complection mental hospital in Estonia and in so called "violent ward". I think it couldn't have been worse than nowerdays then, when the ward- A worked. There were only few truly agressive patients I think.. This all violent thing is overblown..

Thank you.

I've read through some ward reports, calendars, and agendas left in these places over the years, and to me it seems as if the patients had a good amount to do (if they weren't in a violent / forensic setting). Even if they weren't free to leave the hospital grounds, there were still meetings, parties, theater performances, religious events, family visits, and other sorts of events to attend.