1,320 Comments for Undercliff State Hospital

Nice one Little B

nature calls

well..
whats wrong you all got cold feet when a ex pataint comments..
it wasent a mental illness it was non mental cured with the treetment only a place like those can do back in those days

I recognize that....I HAVE THE BOX??!?

i was in a state hospital in paugkeepsie ny. i was 10 years old. diagnosed as hyperactive. you want to know what went on?.. you are druged and straped in a bed til you get in a coma like state. your awake. you can move but you dont want to. otherwise you are forced to take thorazine that makes you pass out. then your half awake all day. they tie you to a bed or a chair if they even think your up to somthing. i was not insane. it was a mental disorder of allways needing to move around. even home i tosed myself back and forth to sleep. at that age there. your allways afrade. with all those people around you that are insane.. i did not belong there. my parrents couldent aford anything else. there are more horrors i did not put here. take it from me. do what ever it takes to stay out of a place like that. if you end up in there. do all you can to get out. i still have the mental scars to this day from being there. you do not want to end up in there. the first step to stay out of those places is to see a doctor at home. its there job to keep you out of them. by finding the problem befor theres no turning it around..

People talking about how much money that yellow chair could be worth.. This, could be worth money.

Reminds me of a recording studio - sound booth.

Might not be a Charles Eames chair..
But it could pass for an ikea chair.

That's a Carolina Wren...poor little thing.

I imagine there are lots of dead animals - mice and rats and other birds who fly in through broken windows and get then can't find another way out - in places like this. This is the first dead animal photo I've seen here, though.

I couldnt agree with you more eldokid ! Thank goodness im into abandoned buildings, i found my birth records , my brothers, my aunts mental records that nobody should have access to, all with personal info. I dont understand why the hospital closed and left this paperwork sitting in files that anyone could have found ! These records should be disposed of, or at lease sent to a secure medical facility, certainly not a moldy old abandoned hospital!

Nothing a portable shredder couldn't cure. Not that long ago, people never would think about something such as identity theft, I think that's just a product recently thanks to the "information revolution". I know people (and I'm one of them myself) that would go "dumpster diving", not for personal records and the like but for other things. There was a time when people who worked in retail would mark a shipment "short", throw the item (camera, clothes, electronics etc) into the dumpster, then go retreive it later after the store closed. I used to find brand new merchandise in the dumpster all in the original boxes. As for patient records, I believe they should be stored for awhile then either given to the patients family or destroyed. I know I had a hell of a time getting my own records from a doctor's office, it was hell and they charged me like $200. If I'm a patient and I request my own records for whatever reason, I should be given them. They pertain to me after all, not someone else. Now everything is going "paperless" and on computer media, but there are a lot of businesses around that have peoples names, addresses and even credit card numbers available if you know where to look for that stuff. A company I worked for closed and all the computer equipment was just left and I often wondered if someone got in there and took that stuff they would find HUGE files with company info, personal info, credit card numbers the works. We need to be more responsible when disposing of stuff.

poor little dead pecker

hmmm, no i say thats a light fixture if i ever saw one. you silly gooses probably think its a soap dispenser. HA!

What a shame to see this building in this condition it should be renovated if its still fixble.

I so agree w/alot of ppl it*s so sad but @ the same time so interesting! so my kind of reading metiral 2! =D