3,664 Comments for Greystone Park Psychiatric Center

Why would you want to perform an exorcism here? It doesn't make any sense... Not that I think it would work anyway. How would you feel if you were told by strangers to get out of your house and go toward the light? I'd be pretty pissed off!

Judderman, you actually expect those poor nurses to come into your room when you smell poorly? ;-)

Pneumothorax sucks. Hope you're better. :-)

Not specifically - just for folks who don't walk on their own, so it certainly does include people with spinal injuries. Many of the folks I work with have cerebral palsy or other motor issues. These chairs are nice because you don't have to always sit in the same position (i.e., at a 90 degree angle with the seat parallel to the floor); you can tilt these and set them so that your weight is distributed differently at different angles, and then you have less risk of skin breakdown and pressure ulcers. It's also helpful if you need to be inclined at a particular angle while eating (such as if you have dysphagia and have problems swallowing) - then you don't have to be taken out of your chair, placed in another chair and repositioned, then taken back out and put back in your regular chair. Finally, a number of folks have a difficult time readjusting themselves voluntarily due to their motor limitations, so this makes them more comfortable.

Sometimes when we are training new staff we ask them to try an experiment where they have to sit in a chair or lie in bed and not move for a certain period of time, just as if they had some of the same physical limitations our folks have, such as not having the motor ability to move themselves around or adjust themselves as most of us unconsciously do every few minutes. Often all it takes is 15 minutes before people are extremely uncomfortable because you take for granted your ability to self-adjust for your comfort level.

Anyway, these chairs are grand because they are also lighter weight yet more sturdy. If you've ever helped push someone in a wheelchair for any amount of time and on even the slightest slope you'll very quickly appreciate the changes they have made in these devices over the years.

The magazine I got. Now all we need is a skeleton.

Hearing voices, eh, Mr. Motts? Back in the day, for that they didn't let you leave there, you had to STAY! Muahahaha!

Another great gallery, Motts!

I don't belong in here, doc! I been framed!

The Doors of Dejection

Ple-Bird
from New York (???)

I was thinking the same thing, I wouldn't risk getting locked in a super-secure room in an abandoned hospital...but then again, I wouldn't go one tenth of the places Mr. Motts goes, so the question is moot!
Puddleboy...I'm taking a guess how you got your name! If I was trapped in a basement amid soggy newspapers and a Marvin Gay album, I might make a puddle too!
Chipy's story is the stuff of nightmares, IMO. There's weird junk in old houses, like Asbestos. But when you're a kid, you do crazy things...

Oh, yes, our staff is very sensitive about the art selection. Nothing that would make a nervous person feel agitated!

No stall doors. The BIG DUDES stand there and watch you, make sure you don't hurt yerself or nobody else! Maybe one of the big dudes likes you, who's gonna believe you anyway, you're crazy!

I see PETA, with the "T" turned inot a dagger-shape. Patients Eradicate Therapeutic Assistants!

I was gonna say, "Beth, I hear you calling...," but Ed got it first.
"Don't mess with meth Beth, don't mess with meth SSeth, don't mess with meth...Gwynneth."
--Reno 911

I was in a hospital for four days a few weeks ago (pneumathorax). I was bedbound. After a while the smell of my own armpits was making me nauceous. And there were hardly any nurses around.
Very bad caring indeed.

"The Silence of the Lambs"

"It puts the lotion into the basket or it gets the hose again!"

Grifs, you could still stick your willy out of the slot!

Anyway, since deinstitutionalization, the "violent ward" patients are now housed in prisons in similar cells...except they're locked up 23 1/2 hours a day without even a semblance of therapy!