1,944 Comments for Worcester State Hospital

Crazy Looking Structure -- cant believe they invested so much into Architecture for crazy people

Thanks AquariusP, I'm not sure what became of him because it just got to be to much for my ex-boyfriend so we stopped going.
Then ex-bf and I broke up and the rest is ancient history now, twenty years ago or more. I think he ended up being released home to his family where they took care of him but can't remember for sure, thank you for your kind words though, these things are never easy for anyone involved.

That is very sad, I dont think he was ever in our care, I rememeber each resident to this day,....but I do hope he is well.

[Huddles in awe and thankfulness at catydid's feet.]

oh, yeah....

and if your community MH or MR program lacks funding....
and is forced to consider returning to a earlier model in order to provide any sort of care....
thank a republican.

unfortunately most "sanitariums" were way understaffed and still are. What we pay human services workers is a statement to how our society views people.... as this is very often the cause of understaffing.
for the record the showers at my junior high were way worse....
After hearing former clients of mine tell me how they were taken outside and hosed down in the middle of winter at the Ladd School, or how even worse, they were never given showers because they were too "high functioning" to need assistance, but not able to function well enough to bathe themselves....i think being bathed in one of these rooms would be a blessing.
Please remember that many (too many) citizens of this country (and others I am sure) lived here. And by lived, I mean this was the only home they may have had. Ever. Whether because family members had washed their hands of them, (often the case) or were unable to care for them properly...and provide for their "special needs". Thankfully care for DD, PDD and severe MH issues has come a long way (at least up North)...consider the alternatives....but it has a long way to go still.
Remember..."there but for the grace of god..."

Yes, he was in one of the older buildings if memory serves correctly. I lost touch after I broke up with the guy I was going with at the time, it was actually his friend we used to visit there. It was long before the fire so if he was still around by then you would have probably gotten him at your nursing home. He was originally from Portugal and didn't speak much english, after his "experience" with angel dust, he didn't really speak at all, real sad.

*sighs* If it's on the right the apparation is actually Mott's photography companion. Read the writing below the picture, or about 2-5 comments above where someone said the same thing.

lol.

Anyways, nice photo Motts. I think its very interesting of how patients were washed.

Oh, nowadays. In my middle school there was three showers (stalls within stalls actually so quite private- no joke) but no one ever used them, and the water was turned off in them anyways.

My high school has private stalls too. Yay. I'm in high school now woot woot.

Lol anyways. Also, in pools and stuff they normally just have a room with some showerheads and soap dispensers. Though you are in your bathing suit......

Just my input. =)

yea and it looks like theres a coat above it

wow thats all i can say

Was he in the old part of the building?
I worked in a Nursing home years back when the fire happened and we got alot of the patients from Worc. State. After the new patients arrived we started hearing rumours about hte living conditions there, but I also hear stories about how it wasn't such a bad place. I would lke to hear more if anyone has worked there.

Many, many years ago, in a different time, and life, a friend of mine was commited to this hospital after a bad experience with angel dust.
I remember the ward he was on looked very similar to this picture, it was a pretty big place and the architechture was something else, though not as impressive as Danvers.

Beautiful and sad.

This makes me feel like someone slipped me a bad drug. I'm waiting for someone or something to jump out of one ofthe doorways

The Adams Family bathroom.