5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Wonder why someone would have bothered to take all the ceiling tiles? Not like they have any value. There is no where near enough debris on the floor for them to have fallen. How odd.

We are waiting in the elevator. All you have to do is open the doors and we will be revealed. All of us who have suffered here are fed up with" Motts"and the people he has sent here to desecrate our hallow ground. Finally we are going to take back ( our wards) what you people have no idea of.

Dintcha know Lynne that when you add Murine or Visine to Vicks Formula 44D it mimcs LSD. Oh, by the way, NEVER mix Chloraseptic with cherry cough drops either. It turns into arsenic.

Hey! That's rather clever turning the electrical box into part of the painting! Very cool!

Not to downplay your accusations, but I would hardly care if someone added Visine or Murine to my food, 'specially if it wasn't well-seasoned. Over-the-counter saline eyedrops aren't usually classified as psychotropic agents unless there has been a revolution in the field someone forgot to clue me in to.

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[ADMIN. NOTE: For legal reasons all identifying names have been removed.]

Beware thrill seekers and tresspassers of these wards, there is such a thing called fate. Patient's were tortured in this building from 1984 to its close by the therapy aid's who should have been patient's themslves and some were, as in the case of [name removed], who was a patient and then became a T.A. but soon quit because she didn't have the stomach to treat patient's the way the other staff members did. And then there was [name removed] who was a patient ,local cab driver for patients then became a T.A. and finally fired for putting his hands down a patients pants in the outside recreation yard.These T.A.s were sworn to protect patient's but instead were on a power trip in tyranny. The therapy aids stoled food, personal item's and cigaretts on a daily basis from patients as soon as the visitors left that brought them for a friend or relative and had to be stored in a staff locked metal cabinet behind a locked steel door . Go figure how things vanished? They also added foreign liquids ( murine, visine and other substances....) to a patients liquid medication if they deemed you a trouble maker. The night shift in building 22 were the worst of the worst. They would do one of two things, drink alchohol or sleep all night. For most of them this was their second job and they did nothing at all at K.P.P.C. but show up. They did not want to be bothered at all and made no bones about it. If a patient had a problem even a serious one like a reaction to medication, they were told " wait for the morning shift ". Some T.A.s who were in building [name removed] during this period are [name removed] and her son, [name removed], [name removed] and [name removed], [name removed], [name removed], [name removed] who looked like barney rubble, [name removed], [name removed] with his elvis sideburns, [name removed], [name removed], [name removed], greasy looking [name removed], [name removed] with a speech impetiment, [name removed], [name removed] the 50's leftover and so on. If anyone remembers the night shift T.A who walked around with a baseball bat and hit your bed with it if he thought you didnt get up quick please post his name. [Identifying information removed] Some of these T.A.'s have had an untimely demise as for the surviving T.A.'s if any one has information please post it.

[ADMIN. NOTE: Actually, please don't post it to save us the trouble of removing it.]

The external fire escapes were added around 1980 or so.

The bodies of dead patients were released to their family. If they were unclaimed, they were buried in the hospital cemetary, which is located near the water tower.

There were fire hose boxes on the walls at numerous locations. Vandals obviously dragged out a hose.

Sounds like someone went off their Thorazine.

The federal government has no control of state institutions. They were built way before there was any type of federal aid to states. Patients later received SS money, which went into their own accounts, not to the state. The state later received federal reimbursements to help with institutions somewhat like acute care hospitals receive some money to pay for indigents.

Bldg 123 - kitchen/dining room.

It was. The ceilings were once tin. The fireplaces were operational. The room you see was originally a dormatory. The wall on the left was added very much later to divide the dormatory into a big dayroom and two smaller dormatories. The double hung windows allowed great ventilation.

That is ground level basement of kitchen/dining room Bldg 123. Group 2 was built on top of a hill and 123 was built on the slope. It connected via tunnels to 122, 124, and 40.

From 1980s when the building was used as a daycare center.