1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

The company who owns this complex is looking for donations to help rebuild and staff the place - http://www.kirkbridebu...dson-olmsted-complex.
Donations of $50 or more get you a ticket to an event on January 26. I'm hoping to attend!

what happened to Xpatient? probably knocked out on qualudes.

Nancy,
I have worked in state hospitals, still am, for over 25 years. Years ago, they did not have the same diagnosis's that they have now. They did not have the meds they have today either. They used restraint's and other cruel means to handle a difficult patient. My experience is that, years ago, pt's were admitted for some really stupid reasons, for example, a husband could put his wife in an asylum just because he did not want her in the house anymore. And they admitted many many women for those exact reasons. They also would put homeless people, but not necessarily mentally ill, in the asylums too. Now days there are so many patient rights that it is hard to abuse a pt and get away with it. It still does happen tho. The trouble now days is that you really can't put your hands on a pt if they are out of control and dangerous to themselves or others without a good chance of losing your job if you do. It is really a difficult thing because to let a pt thrash about or assault a staff member is more cruel in my book than to give them a good shot of thorazine to put them out. There are way too many assaults against staff and the pt gets no consequences for their behavior. Laws are good and all, but they need to do something with the outcomes after a staff gets assaulted.

I was traumatized in seclusion rooms. These naive comments are upsetting. It is like no one has any idea of what thousands and thousands have suffered. This happened all the time in the best of hospitals! in my experience they were barren, white dirty holes. I was thrown in by a crowd of men with no understanding of why. Years later I saw a nurse who worked at a world renown hospital where this happened and asked her why they put me in seclusion. I worried it was because I was violent. She said that I was never violent. It was because they thought I would hurt myself by accident or deliberately. I was put in restraints in the seclusion room. I lost touch with reality and thought I was paralyzed. I thought I had died and gone to hell. They left me alone in my pain. What Tim said rings true to me. Some staff may feel like they have less rights than patients. I disagree, and I feel that those staff should quit.

I have been in too many seclusion rooms in community hospitals a private hospital. They were horrific, all of them. This was the 80's. They are still in use, and still abused.

Very captivating...could look at your pictures for hours

The wall color looks like you want to throw up. That has to be one of the ugliest colors I have seen. If I was a patient I would get sick sitting in that room.

I would think people would be creeped out entering these places that is probably why you don't see lots of graffitti.

The safe is starting to turn black from greed.

Looks can be decieving it looks good, and like home but it is not home once you check in you will be lucky to check out.

Try camping out in this place overnight maybe your thoughts will change about the paranormal.

Locking people up who are not prisoners is humane what is wrong with people.

The yellow brick roof.

I lived in a grouphome I wouldn't say it was the same as a mental hospital but some things were similar. I was there while in fostercare. They gave kids medication as well in these places. The staff never really told you the truth of what was going on, and never tried to understand you as a person. I always heard we will do what is best for you, but their actions said they really didn't care. You couldn't trust people in these places they weren't family. I think if people would just treat others well, and actually help them then they would be better off. The staff don't want you to progress especially if they didn't like you. When the kids did something the staff didn't like they were restrained I just think it is wrong. The time out was a day of sitting in a chair if you talked hours were added on. It was bad there but I think a mental hospital is so much worse. People were tortured here thinking one day they would leave, and they never left. Even buried on the grounds that is creepy. I only pray that their souls are free, and in everlasting peace.

Sad to read that about your mother. I just think places like this are used to control people not help them. Giving people medication is not solving problems just covering them up. Electric shock treatments that is worse than what people get in prison. How people can even justify this is right is beyond me they just don't have emotions. I have yet to hear about any success stories from patients who lived in these places.