420 Comments for Adonia State Hospital

What can I say about records? When I called my attorney several years after my case supposedly closed, he said he had destroyed my file. I was livid that he didn't at least offer me what was there, even though I had copies of most everything, there was a lot that I didn't have and for him just to heave ho and toss 5 years of my life away I think was wrong. Not to mention the fact that we were pretty close friends, this was a shock to find out I was just tossed out. Then on to the doctors office. When this office I had been going to for years closed, I asked for my file. They REFUSED and this was MY file! I raised holy hell and demanded my file which I eventually got a COPY of for several hundred dollars. The originals I was told were going "into storage". I often wonder where they are now and who has had read them. Nothing interesting but sometimes funny when they would write that I was "conbatative" or "irratating" today. I think there needs to be a whole revamping of these file systems and who has access to them and who decides what to do with them when they're finished. I think patients should have some rights to have their own records especially if a doctors office is closing.

Its fascinating to see all these abandoned hospitals. I live in Australia and theres no way they'd have a psych hospital and not have it operating or being renovated for patients!

the buildings were built with old school carpentry and masson skills and solid oak and the best hard woods fresh cut from the forest thay were built to last hundreds of years not120 150 it would cost multi millions to try to copy and replace the buildings /let alone the cost for the skilled labor to do the work/we have plenty of parking lots /emty lots dont make jobs /or put roofs over peoples heads.give someone a place to live.and save the old woman and have her stay arounde for another 100 or 200 years look at the cost to replace them in 100 or so years verses the cost of the interest on the dollar/to repair them

I love the way that the rust forms after many years
Very post appolicaticed (sp)
i would love to have a job exploreing old abonded things

I would so open them and read them

Patricia, I agree. Where are you from? I'm from UK but live in Greece. Here, an abandoned building either gets pulled down or stays that way. Noone seems to understand the notion of renovation. Here in Salonika there are so many beautiful buildings just going to ruin. I wanna cry.

Lynne,your knowledge and compassion continue to impress me! I'm training to be an Art Therapist and your comments fascinate me. Thank you
Motts...great pics as I have said a zillion times before

Oh no, the intercom is bleeding to death!

Jane, I think the reason there weren't as many T.B. hospitals in the days of Laura Ingalls Wilder is because when she speaks of the "prairie cure" for consumption, she was referring to the late 1880's, which was before most of these T.B. hospitals were built.

I have never commented on any of your photos since all I could really say is that I love your work... but this one just facinates me. the rust is amazing to think about how it occured like that.

EW If I'm gonna stay here overnight, I'm gonna bring my sleeping bag!

Wayy up there on the comment board, Motts, Lynne, and Judderman were discussing how it seems kind of disrespectful to read about a stage so horrible in a person's life, but i personally think that if they are no longer with us, and they are from a long time ago, i would read them to see how they were being treated/the conditions they were in/what was happening. I think, although i'm probably looked down upon for saying this, i would go through it for the sake of knowing how that time was, not to gain information about them, but for information about the conditions.

It's a relief to get out of the building and see a blossoming tree. Looking at all those crumbling walls and flaking paint makes my lungs feel as though they are full of toxins.

I just wish there were monies to save these old buildings. I know we aren't perfect in Europe but we seem to find uses for ours more I think. My brother lived in a 1000 year old soldiers barracks (they made them into apartments, it was amazing to see what they used as insulation, they weren't finished with all of them so we got to see them during the remodel). I just wish the government would realize how important the buidlings are. Once you lose them a part of our history is gone forever. Memories are also gone forever.

uhm.. try it out ;)