2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

It reminds me of a seat for some sort of thrill ride

Is that a bed pan wheelchair motts

Highly doubtful someone would have taken it in there with them, If you ask me...

i would gladly sleep in tha crib because im a adult baby

Just like BlueSkyes said--at the place I used to work, they would introduce people going into group homes using family member terms. They're foster family after all.

On the children's wing of the place I used to work, they used cardboard pictures of good and bad behavior, you know, one would show someone helping someone, one would show someone ignoring someone, and they'd ask them to pick out the good kid, the kid you should be like... I wonder if this was once part of a set like those?

I used to work on a brain injury and paralysis ward... Although the place I used to work (obviously) had only one to a room, it had the thick style of toilet, too, for people with balance problems. It was mostly an optical thing, that this style looks sturdier, and of course the more delicate shaped normal toilet isn't going to tip over and is rooted in plumbing--but try explaining that to someone with a lowered IQ! It's just easier to present with with a sturdier looking seat.

Also the lack of TP--a good number where I used to work had to be prompted to wipe anyway, and some had to be checked that they'd done it. And then there were the who would eat it.... You know how it goes soggy so easily? Apparently some of the residents who were orally fixated found that texture appealing and it’s very, very bad for you to eat gobs of paper. Even if you haven't wiped yet...

I think alot of people (lynn included) can fall into tunnel vision and protection of ones view of something.

Lets look at the situation in an overall big picture way.
The mental health field has MANY HORRORS in its past.

Be it from the very nature of evolving understanding of mental illness to how treatment changes from this knowledge.

Remember it was considered "enlightened" to preform labotomies. Including the "ice pick" labotimes with no anestetics and done at the drop of a hat (aka universal cure all).

Now add the lack of understanding and acceptance by the public.

Top it off with the lack of funds for space, equipment, and screening/hiring/retaining/ training staff .

Then throw in the number of people who really want to help the special needs people (like Lynn for which I COMMEND YOU) and you have a recipe for disaster.

The reality is that EVEN TODAY the misery, abuse (physical, mental, sexual) and problems still continue today. I propose that the improvement while there is not as great as many would believe.

Lynn even you must admit no matter how much you love the people you care for if you don't have enough staff the horrors of minimal care cannot be avoided. One (as seen posted somewhere) cant give the love/caring to the 40+ to 1 ratio that existed and still may.


IMO it is due to hiding (either though shame to criminal cover-up) the truth of the past and today.

We need to look at all the good but ESPECIALLY the shame and pain of the past to current to keep the improvements up to help those who cannot help themselves.

As one with a special needs child I want to make Lynn the norm, not the exeption.

Where is Fuller State School and Mental Hospital, I have been trying to figure it out for well over an hour and am coming up dry... Can anyone help me with this? Please and thanks...(:

Ahhh, yes, it is a normal window, see now!

Is it mirrored glass?
Awesome thread; so long, and very interesting shot, indeed.
All these things we don´t know.
May you always be well, and thank you for pictures and site.

This is a standard Hobart puree maker. It has two or three VERY sharp blades at the bottom of the bowl that rotate at a high speed and turn whatever is in the bowl to a fine mush. Suitable for spoon feeding those that could not chew. The handle on the cover controls a scrapper that cleans anything off the inside of the lid. Used to this day in most nursing homes and hospitals.

Check out Acorn Industries, they manufacture stainless steel sink/toilet units for penal institutions. In my 23 years as a maintenance supervisor in a penal institution I, nor, to my knowledge, have any of my fellow maintenance professionals, ever encountered one of these units being destroyed to provide metal for shanks. These things are just to well built.

When I saw the name of this shot, I instantly thought of George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher from Cannibal Corpse ;-)

I actually enjoy the contrast and coloring in this photo with the mood. The blue sky and the clouds with the tree there in the Background (greens by the bike) sets the mood as if it was peaceful and quite yet the institutional building and the forlorn bike in the foreground give it that pity feeling and hit of sorrow giving or hinting a feeling of emptiness?