580 Comments for Margate State School

barbara-we actually still have chairs like that here, it's kind of creepy to see them here though.

You can have a cookie you you get to the other side of the maze.

Many years ago, I got my daughter a life-size doll for Christmas. For some reason it always scared her and used to say it would move on its' own. Strange what go through kid's minds.

What experimental patients, kahuna69?

I think I'll go take my grandchild for a walk and "restrain" her in her stroller. : )

From under your bed, why do you like wheelchairs?? Gotta be a reason.

Motts~
I have to tell you, I had no idea til I saw your site, how many hospitals and facilities there were and are, that were built to care for people with T.B., mental illness, and all the other things mentioned on your site.
Your pictures make the viewer imagine what it might have been like to be a patient or employee at any of these places.
To walk these many halls and live in these many rooms.
To try to imagine what it may have been like to walk in their shoes.
It's also interesting to be able to read the history of them as well as your experience in them.
And Lynne~ Your knowledge in this field, along with the many others who also know from personal experience and have shared what they know, help educate those of us, like myself, understand a little better what it was like to be behind these walls.
Thanks to all of you. : )

Couldn't have said it better myself, Serrena. :-)

Boo, if you are ever in the situation where you are forced to depend on others due to being in a fragile state (whether of your own making or not), you will wish there was someone in your corner taking personally what people say who don't have the first idea what they are talking about. Until you've been there you won't understand. That's both about living there and about working there. These aren't always fun places to work and they are places that very few of us (if any) would choose to live for more than a brief time. I believe that people should have accurate information about how these places used to be (both good and bad) and about how they currently are (both good and bad). It is bad enough that one of us might end up needing inpatient psychiatric services some day. Having false information about what happens there is not likely to allay any fears. I have seen as many bigoted, uninformed comments here as anywhere about people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities, and since they pay my salary, it behooves me to try to do a little public education on the side. Feel free to read right over my personal comments. It won't bother me the least little bit. :-)

Boo - I'll give you a simple answer to that; Lynne takes this very personally because she's an employee of a State Hospital and would like to do her part to clear up some of the gross misconceptions laymen seem to have about the mental health care giving field.

Lynne, why do you take this so personal all the time?

chippy thats really deep its almost as deep as a quote at the zoo in my town (by the way its the oldest zoo in the southern U.S.A thought i had to add that) it says "When one species passes before that species can be restored one earth heaven and universe must pass" i cant remember who said it though. anybody notice what looks like blood in that tray?

hell why are some people so ignorant?

Sam you're right it looks brand new except for the dust and tape

the one the far left is either flippin us the bird pointing to chair telling us to sit

wow i wonder if anybody noticed that matress on the right pretty ceepy