2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

Had I seen these photos before my daughter was born, it would have weighed heavily on me...but now that I am a parent, it makes me feel dark and ill. I thank God every day that mine was born healthy and is happy.

If you don't think that they didn't keep patients down in the basement behind these "toothy" doors....well, you probably need to think a little more realistically.

Looks like an electroshock therapy chair.

Some of you seem to think this is disturbing? Ever see someone in four point restraints? Ever see what some people have done to warrant four point restraints? I have. More disturbing I feel. This crib is par for the time period. Also, it is only within a relatively short period in history that people were put in "cribs" and not jail-like cells. Medievil Europe and even colonial America. I have seen the Asylum at Colonial Willamsburg in Virginia several times. It is actually over the last half-century that the biggest advancements have been made. So in comparison, (aside from confirmed cases of abuse) The adult crib in this picture is quite humane.

Thanks, I'll be here all week.
sorry I only only mention mental illness. I have a rare one so I felt I could speak intelligently on the subject with at least a bit of copability

B

how evil looking!

thanks for freaking me out, Java

Thats a Hobart Mixer, we use these at Little Caesars to mix the dough. They do got some crazy blades you can hook up in there and it would make a good corpse grinder. lol

I have to say, you are really good at taking pictures. : ) I've taken pics of places, not so many, but a few. Like of a school, and an old supermarket. But I haven't been inside them.
Good work, though. ^^

Same place, different pseudonym.

I was looking at the different links you have for other Urban ruin sites and I saw the one for Urban Atrophy. I was looking threw some of their galleries and I noticed that they had an image of the same bike. They said it was from the Patuxent Mental Hospital. I was wondering if the Fuller State School was part of the Patuxent Mental Hospital?

Oh, I remember this one.

Oh wait...Is that concrete around it?




Hard to tell.

Forgot to add that my friend barely makes $10/hr( and she spent over 2 grand to get her CNA)

Another former friend of mine worked as an aide to a CP client and was making $9.50/hr no benefits or sick days and working very erratic and overwhelming hrs.

Lynne..

*STANDING OVATION *

I have a friend who works at a county nursing home/mental health facility here in NJ( a facility which I will not mention but which has a pretty bad rep here in Northern NJ). The bad rep is due to MANY of the reasons you mentioned: no money, low paying jobs, understaffing, ect.
My friend works as an activity aide/CNA and her patients( be they the geriatric patients or the MH patients) are her world. Although she freely admits that there are gross instances of neglect and wrongdoing, in the main, everyone cares about the residents and patients and tries to do what they can to brighten lives. (As is so often the case many of these people are without families and have been here for years. This is one of the largest hospitals in NJ and since the closing of the majority of state hospital beds, it has been pressed into service to care for the remaining long-term psych patients who cannot function in a group home setting)

LadyMaggie
Who plans to put her money where her loquatious mouth is and volunteer @ said facility in the near future

Please tell me that dial really goes up to 11...