1,337 Comments for Middletown State Hospital

I think the lump everyone sees is the bunched up straw bedding under the fabric.

I don't think one of those coffin have been seen since the victorian era. Although they were fairly cheap to make they were sturdy and well made. Seeing the condition of this one amazes me.

Looks comfy. Like a cozy bed with a down comforter. If it wasn't a coffin, I'd take a nap there.

I know that I am not an expert, I don't claim to be, but I have researched it a lot, and it seems like people are getting their time periods confused. The people who are taking offense to comments are thinking of the present or recent years. The ones who believe the majority of care given to patients was abusive should be looking to the past. Dorothea Dix, Nellie Bly, Albert Deutsch; these are all key researchers who found terrible conditions in mental hospitals.
None of them researched past 1950. Mental health care has improved in institutions, but the homeless mentally ill are still a problem-not for us, for their own well-being.
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I just came across this site at work, and I must say, of all the pictures I have seen, this set, by far, is the most interesting to me. It would be surreal to be inside of an abandoned place, and see something like this.

Keep up the good work Motts

Yikes !

Great shot !!!

This is totally natural decay. No broken windows or any vandalism. Great!

The windows are all intact and the floors are caving in, very strange. The walls seem to have moss too

it looks like a girl's face on the side of the door way on room 3 looks creepy

I wonder if they were embalmed.

after reading all this I forgot what the pic looked like!

Perhaps you were an inmate once Amy.

The windows would actually help relive depression, sun light increases seritonin in the brain, the lack of which causes clinical depression.

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compared to the other rooms, this one is in very good shape