1,944 Comments for Worcester State Hospital

It is difficult to explain to people the horrible dehumanization of institutional psychiatry; it is difficult for people to listen and believe, because who WANTS to think people treat people this way? (And all subsequent improvements are incremental at best, btw...).

This little washdown facility may have doubled as routine mass hygiene and as intervention/punishment. Think of COLD water.

You can practically see spirits inside.

Love the way Motts has described his view on this picture, I can definitely see it too in the windmills of my mind

amen to that

Don't feel bad (dirty), Bob. I met my Hubby in a laundry room of a motel we worked in, Laundries can be fun!

or maybe we are both demented?

It's a beautiful building.

I have a class currently on the Psychology of Death and Dying and my instructor was a councilor for terminally ill patients at Worcester State hospital. As she was talking about some of the patients who were particularly memorable, I was thinking about Mott's pictures. It sort of came full circle for me and made me think a bit more about the actual people who lived here.

Thanks Lynne.
I guess laundries make me feel a little dirty in a sick sort of way. Man! I'm demented.

Anyway, there is still so much more of this site that I haven't seen yet, off I go->

And I adore YOU! Er, I mean, I adore ~ME. Er, that doesn't sound right either.

Ah, fergit it.

Nibble on these, if you will! :-)

http://www.opacity.us/image2736.htm
http://www.opacity.us/image2672.htm
http://www.opacity.us/image1285.htm
http://www.opacity.us/image303.htm
http://www.opacity.us/image342.htm

Does "Just a litte off the top" fit in here somehow?

Yea! I guess your right Motts, they're boring when in-use anyway, so you do make a very good point about the laundry after life.
I guess i just needed to feel complete, and the link completed me.

~Me; good catch, no idea how i got "Nibble" from "Nimble" but the more I read it the more I laugh at my silly self.

Hey! I was just looking for that same picture to show Bob! Great minds do think alike!

I adore this photo!

The most nibbles, Hehe.


I like this new guy Bob, I do, yes I do.

Heh, well to be honest the laundry buildings / areas are usually extremely boring places, and I'd rather not risk being arrested just to see an empty laundry room!

But if you absolutely must see one, there's one here http://www.opacity.us/image2671.htm and only because it has a cool ironer left!