319 Comments for Barlow State Hospital

after looking at the GALLERY no outside pics how can I find this place ??? Mica helP - i don't like the word UNDISCLOSED

What a coincidence, mine are Tuesday and Friday too. :)

Paper pulp is grown on farms. They use fast growing poplar trees. Little known fact the use of computers which was supposed to lower the amount of paper required for society/business/etc because everything was going to be digital, actually increased the amount of paper used exponentially.

The cords that coil like a phone cord are the power source for the dental tools. I can't tell if this is electric or compressed air. The stand that table comes off of is separate from the chair but goes with it as does the light stand.

They used to wash us with the same rag every day. They would line us up and with one bucket they only emptied when done, dip the rag wring it out and wipe off each child. They always made me be last.
I don;t remember baths or showering but I know they took us up to the hospital once a week for one or the other.

ECT is a lobotomy without the blood.
I have a circular bald spot (see the electrode in pic) on my head where one person had held the electrode and cranked it up to try to destroy my mind. I was burned severely. They were using the ECT to make the children they were abusing forget what had been done to them as well as to abuse them.
They would move the electrode about over the head to see what effects they could get. I'd like to find the notebooks they kept on this.
There was one guy trusted with doing them as he could make the kids forget and leave no outward sign something had been done to them. The lady who burned me conned him with flirtation and had a friend show up and call him away so she could do that to me.

The after effects destroy short term memory, make one face blind to most people you meet (prosopagniosia) and otherwise screw with the linear nature of your memory. I must have been shocked hundreds of times.
The current use of ECT is in a form much lower voltage and amperage. It is in any case the use of electricity to randomly destroy brain cells whose "effectiveness" is determined by the subjective observations of medical personnel and the anecdotes of the victim whose mind has just been fried.
I was gotten to say many things I had no idea what they meant or that I should be looking deeper as a child and on into my adulthood just by conditioning me to it after ECT.

Thank's for the new fantastic gallery Mr.Motts!

Shame, they're awfully expensive. they should have repurposed this for some other little one.

Thank you. It really was just "guesswork" when it came to the treatment of the mentally ill. Scarry. Thank you for another great gallery.

Paperwork......hard to believe we have any trees left!

Wonderful, new gallery. I enjoy your work a lot.

Sounds like a good reason!

Probably not, it's an old school knob and the lock needs one of those big ancient hospital keys to turn the deadbolt. Those new fangled push-bar steel doors like to automatically lock though, I've almost been trapped in a stairwell from one of those.

Thanks John!

eldokid - definitely a possibility, the hospital resembled a small town with all kinds of shop buildings used for maintenance, and most likely occupational therapy programs, which were used to give patients experience to work once they were released.

Hate those kinds of chairs, cold in the winter and sticky in the warm months