4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

Lynne we can never get enough of your crabbiness ; )

Lynne you crabby old wench...I do lubs ya muchly. : )

i was born in norwich state hosptial november 20th 1980. on my birth certificate it says, NORWICH CT, as my brith place, no where does it say NSH. kinda odd huh? my mother was a nurse there in some building. im not sure and cant ask seeing she passed in 2003. i plan to return to the hospital site and take pics soon. i cant wait!

-applauds lynne-

"Insane people" = "people with psychiatric issues" (or problems or disorders). This isn't about being politically correct - it's about the real pain that a person feels when someone calls them "insane" or "crazy" and likens their time at a psychiatric facility to being in a "circus." Where I currently work (and at almost all other facilities and clinics across the nation) it is considered verbal abuse to call someone "crazy" or "insane," so you see just how easy it is to be "abusive" . . .

Corey,

Abuse went on there and everywhere. In your state. In your city. In your neighborhood. Maybe even in your own house. Why the desperation to find out if it happened here versus closer to your own home? Are you going to do anything to help anybody if you find out that "torture" went on? Some days it seems that people are getting their kicks from thinking that people with psychiatric issues may have been mistreated - a vicarious thrill that I find disturbing. Given the lack of funding and public support that occurred back then I can assure you that abuse went on at some point, if only for the fact that there wasn't enough money or staff to see to the needs of a very large number of people who had some pretty serious problems. Also, many of the techniques that you call "torture" were standard medical or psychiatric practice at the time. It's hardly fair to wait 50 to 100 years and then condemn people for not having today's knowledge.

If you are searching so frantically for something terrible that happened and yet aren't doing anything to help stop it from happening again, it's called "voyeurism" - it's getting a kick out of other people's misery. People who lived in orphanages, prep schools, and boarding schools had many, if not all, of the same experiences that happened to people in psychiatric and developmental facilities, yet I don't see many people running around looking for old boarding schools to find ghosts and "tortured souls". This is just another way of staring at people who are different, but it's a little more "politically correct" than doing it directly. Still boils down to the same thing, however.

If you are REALLY interested ("interested" meaning "caring" versus "staring"):
1. Learn the history of the field before you pass judgment on everyone.
2. Volunteer some time in the field to help others and see what the state of the field is like currently so you can talk from experience and not from some sappy second-hand faked story you saw on "Ghost-busters."
3. Learn the issues as far as funding for mental health in your state and nationally.
4. Vote to support the appropriate use of funding for mental health issues and encourage your friends and family to do the same.

P.S. Yes, I am a nasty old wench who probably doesn't deserve to live for being such a Crabby Appleton about this. :-)

With all the insane people, it was a circus and hence the reason a toy was at the facility. Probably in an employee area, and was a joke one of the nurses bought for a doctor.

Motts, might I suggest at your next visit to NSH to get photos of the docks....were they just used to haul oil to the power plant or also to haul in patients? Have you found any decomposing bodies in any of the buildings of NSH? Did you see any interesting paperwork? I would be quite interested in seeing photos of it. Also, I wanted to know whether you noticed any of the tunnels were sealed off from buildings and if the tunnels are accessible only from buildings or if they can be accessed from outside?

Motts, Was there anything in the safe? What do you think it was used for and what was its approximate size? Was there a safety inside to open it or could it only be opened from the outside if locked?

Anyone know of someone who used to work at NSH who either published a book, article, or video on their experiences and whether patients were abused there. I am very interested to confirm rumors that experiements happened at NSH on humans.

ive never posted here but
would like to say first i love your pics they capture more than any word could ever describe . i go by norwich hospital everyday and it bothers me that some people feel that taking down a dark part of are past will make it go away. these are buildings that still have alot to teach us . i think all of the old hospitals would be perfect as tools for docters so that they can see how far we have come in medical reaserch. them hospitals hold the key to how far we have come in medical tech. why should the people who died in these places die pointlessly we could at least remember how we got so far in medicen. if they take every last primitive hospital down how will future doctors trully understand the suffering and loss of life that have made recent hospitals what they are today. books and pics do not show the feelings that lurk in the halls of these great places. you have to see it to truly understand what these places truly are. im sorry for going on i hope im not alone with this . ive been to alot of the old asylums but norwich is the one i feel closest to it has almost a magnetic pull that makes you want to see more and learn more and hear more storys about it. ive seen danvers it was beautiful but still not the same feeling as norwich. welp thank you for the pics they really are beautiful .

mint

awesome, real nice dude

Wow... beautifull pictures man. When I was stationed in Groton me and some of the boys snuck from the park and ride station behind the hospital through the cemetary and into the first small house. You can get down into these underground tunnels that go on for miles it seems. Awsome for hide and seek at night.

just stay away.....its not for you