4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital

absolutely love the contrasts in this one.

A new gallery! This just made my night.

nice angle, great coloring with the light coming in.

Beautiful coloring on the wood, this area is huge

Beautiful shot. I love the design on the gate, I wonder what the whole thing looks like!

My 13 year old daughter had to go to a state childrens hospital once due to being psychotic. She has been in a private hospital a few times before, and it was nice, but the state one she felt like a prisoner. I made sure she got out quickly as soon as she was marginally stable (about a week or 10 days I think) Even though they tried hard to make it nice for the patients, it was very hard for her there. I can't imaginge how it would be back then especially for children. I also could never imagine abandoning my mentally ill children like most were years ago.

One of the only regrets I had about taking care of my mom while she was dying last year was having to put up the rails on her hospital bed so she didn't try to get up and go to the bathroom on her own. Hospice told me to do that because she would fall. I once had to get my kids from school (gone no more than 10 mins). She wasn't strong enoutgh to come with me, and there was no one to stay with her. Hospice told me it was ok, but I still feel guilty leaving her like that. I made sure I offered her a potty run before, she couldn't understand why I had to do it. She was real out of it though. It was only a week (a very long week).
I couldn't imagine working there and having to do stuff like that all the time to patients.
I also have lots of experience with mental illness, myself, most of the people on my mom's side, and my kids all have been in and out of hospitals.

Looks like somebody dumpd a couple gallons of lime kool-aid on the floor. Silly janitors Kool-aid is for drinking not cleaning.

We're all numbers now though...


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Holy cats, that is a lot of theaters.

Great gallery Motts! :D

Well, i guess i will add this, since others found the tiles as strange as i did in this theater. My first thought was did they ever hose down the audience ?? Wow!

Can't be 100% sure, but it looks like the 'before' picture features a tiled floor.

It was an educational lecture hall, I think, because of the blackboard on the back wall of the "stage". Maybe?

Looks like a friend for the Ventilator.

Unfortunately there is a mentality amongst those that work in health care that if a resident's behavior is annoying to them then it must be to the other residents as well and must be silenced--even a simple whimper repeated 20 times. The majority of the time those drugs are used for the purpose of keeping residents quiet. It's selfish and sadly still common today. Walk down a hallway in any nursing home and you will see residents lined up in their wheelchairs, leaning over, drooling and obviously drugged to the gills.