1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

I feel like I showed up to this party 5 years too late. Over the past year I have poured over every gallery posted by Motts and read the comments. And they have changed my perception of mental health care facilities thanks to comments by Lynne & others. I must admit that I fell into that whole "One Flew Over The Co-Co Nest" mentality. One bad health care worker makes for better news reporting that a million good ones. Thank you Lynne for opening my eyes to the reality of hard working nurses & aids who came to places like this every single day and tried to make a difference.

It looks like they would take clients/patients down to the basement and lock them in this room with these gawd-awful pink doors...

I think that color just made me nauseous...where's my Pepto??

OMG I see that face...though it looks more simian than human.

When I was at a Psych Ward in a well-respected hospital here in PA (2 hours from where I live), the nurses would actually come around to the patients personally with a litlte cup of water and their pills. Of course there weren't many patients there compared to these facilities, but it always made the patients feel a little more comforatable and cared for getting their meds this way. Of course the ward I was on also had an open pantry area with crackers, cookies, and all sorts of juices available to the patients whenever they wanted them. THAT was a nice touch. The nurses there were very caring and even though they were horribly overworked (and underappreciated), they still treated us like humans.

I will never forget my experience there.

How was that Lynne?

Johhny--I wonder why that was...what made this room so statically...um....challenged compared to the other rooms?

I believe you 100000% btw...:)

Well...it certainly is airy isn't it now?

Pure.perfection.

I would Pirate Dance with Johnny ANYDAY!!!

Can you possibly share him with me?? PLEAAAAAAAASE??

I LOVE how this is almost like an optical illusion...doors within doors within doors.

VERY nice. I bow to you oh master of the camera...

*oooohhhmmmmmmm* (bowing)

Wow...
This place has all these windows to let in lots of light, yet for some (most?) people, it was the darkest place they could ever be in.

Irony anyone?

HEEEEY...serenityjane--you have chocolate cake and you aren't sharing with me??


HUMPH lol. :)

nurses stations are neat and i like that creepy feeling

i love state hospitals so much they should never touch this place it is a very sad but beautiful place to keep

Waverly state hospital death tunnel

nice id love to go there

so scary

last min of freedom