420 Comments for Adonia State Hospital

motts u never stop amazing me! just wow!
kind of makes me want to cough and sneeze at the same time....
oh and i'm still working on the paintings...u just keep making me want to change my mind! lol i just need to get on working on them more, beautiful work dear....
kym...

It appears to be an old cork board for posting memo's upon.
Mr.Motts, am I correct?

Wonderful set, wonderful website. Your site is the best out of all the UE sites I have visited. I love the fact that you put comments with the pictures, tell us about your experience(s), allow us to post comments and that you respond to some of the questions posted. You are a fantastic photographer and storyteller Motts....I await for your book to come out. (hint-hint) :)

What are the white cabinet looking doors on the wall? Are they cabinets, or windows through the wall? Or nothing but decor?

I have thought the same thing CAN everytime I look at any of the pictures Motts has taken of rooms full of files. You would think that representatives of hipaa would do something about these things. I guess they only care about protecting patients in the present and not the past. Not to mention they are probebly scared shi*less to go in there. You are a brave soul Motts, rock on!

SO MUCH FOR THE HIPPA LAW

:-)

I still love ya, Lynne, and buttons too!

*That was a great study by Rosenhan. I was in my first year of college when that study came out (1973), so you can see how ancient I am. :-) Don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but these days due to the various laws and due to insurance and federal and state funding, it is very difficult to get someone in a mental health facility involuntarily and even if you WANT to be there, funding lapses pretty quickly, so what they described in this study is less likely to happen. All you had to due was blink and you might get an involuntary commitment and it was VERY difficult to get out. The current legal demonstration of "danger to self or others" is quite strict, so this can be positive or negative depending on whether you want/need services or want to avoid them. However, his point that we all tend to judge people based on what we hear about them before we meet them (whether correct or incorrect) still holds true and probably always will.

*As regards visual hallucinations, in schizophrenia if visual hallucinations occur they generally co-occur with auditory hallucinations - they rarely occur alone. There are 5 senses. When we say that visual hallucinations come in second after auditory hallucinations that doesn't necessarily mean that there are a large number of them, just that they are reported MORE often than gustatory, olfactory, or tactile hallucinations, the last three occurring almost exclusively as a result of organic causes (unless they are all occurring together in someone who has frankly decompensated). This is a good way to differentiate the organic syndromes such as Lewy body dementia, Charles Bonnet syndrome, vertebro-basilar artery syndrome, head injuries, epilepsy, electrolyte imbalance, DTs, medication side effects, etc., from schizophrenia. As well, it is helpful when people are malingering (pretending to be psychotic). If someone comes to you and says they see things but aren't also hearing things and haven't shown signs of overall deterioration, you are then able to rule out or decrease the chances that someone has certain disease processes, such as schizophrenia.

*My initial point was to tease Nauseous about a patient reporting that they saw Motts but the staff thinking the patient had made it up, because, as I said, if someone has not shown an overall gross deterioration, is not currently experiencing both auditory hallucinations and visual hallucinations, a well-trained (there's the rub) psychiatric technician would know right away that perhaps something needed to be checked out if they claimed to see someone in the area where Motts was.

*However, I did a poor job and the point obviously suffered and died in translation. :-(

http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/articles/schizophrenia.html

"Visual hallucinations are more characteristic of organic states if occurring alone, and olfactory or gustatory hallucinations in particular should stimulate a search for organic pathology, particularly temporal lobe epilepsy."

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/325/7365/644

"The main differential diagnosis of delirium is from a functional psychosis (such as schizophrenia and manic depression) and from dementia. Functional psychoses are not associated with obvious cognitive impairment, and visual hallucinations are more common in delirium."

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030301/1027.html

"While visual hallucinations can occur in patients with primary psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, they are much less common than auditory hallucinations. In primary psychiatric disorders, visual hallucinations would be associated with other, more characteristic signs and symptoms of the disorders."

Read the study "Sane in Insane Places" by David L. Rosenhan on diagnostic labeling and patient bias.
Visual halluncinations are the most common after auditory hallunctinations in severe schizophreniacs. Visual halluncinations can also be a result of psychosis and psychosis can be linked to anything from PTSD to depression.

Oh, I'm sorry. :-(

It was a joke. Geez....

triiiiippy

Lynne!!! LOLl!! My thoughts exactly - (but I didnt have the nerve to state them - glad you did though!!! ) (Motts, WE LOVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY! CANT GET ENOUGH)

just curious, what was behind that dor (the one behind the chair)