942 Comments for Severalls Hospital

To me a clock is not very complicated because i have built a mechanical clock and I own about ten antique clocks. I doubt it would work it would need a lot of oil and then it might not even work.

this must be part of those long interconnecting corridors mentioned at the start of the gallery

*shakes head and whistles in awe*

Thank you, Motts~!

OMG, the colors are so pretty and calming...

This smoke-darkened room may very well reflect the blackened, ravaged minds of the many lost and forlorn patients who resided here.

Absolutely gorgeous in its eerilness.

It looks so dismal...and beautiful.

The window looks inward
At the lonely weeping walls
The window looks outward
At the empty, endless halls
The silence hurts my ears
But cannot dispel my fears
As from the corner of an eye
The lack of substance does not lie
Ghostly shadows dart about
Please, won't someone let me out.

That reminds me of the room we played baseball in when I was in jail.

Jack of the Green

Seclusion is the next to last stage of intervention. By law hospitals are supposed to use the LEAST restrictive method, possible to quiet the situation. Preferably an event can be settled by the patient verbally contracting for safety .. The process escalates from there depending on behavior.

If a patient is endangering other people, seclusion is a way to let him/her calm down rather than using restraints.

This part actually looks pretty decent---clean. Don't they remove valuable items before they demolish it? Or does everything get torn down together?

And why were patients secluded? Misbehavier? If you have mental problems to begin with, don't you think that would make it worse?

My first thought, looking at this photo was, "What a beautiful painting."

In very old homes, electrical wiring was often run on the outside of the walls. First of all, today our construction is such cheap dry-wall, they have no problem running the electrical wires behind the walls; it's only studs and the rest is hollow. It was more difficult to run wiring behind walls that were pretty heavy "real" plaster and heavier construction.