1,656 Comments for Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital

Awesome spacious event happening, really cool angle and it is not all cluttered and graffiti-ed - maybe "Creep" quietly sneaking around watchfully, is a very good idea at this place. Word spread. Thank you for good interesting perspectives always.

Unbelievably blue is so precious and hopeful - beautiful
- have no idea what makes all so blue; but i love this - a fantastic scene perfect.

nightmare fuel...dangit my hand is numb

I can't help but wonder if the resident didn't have sonething to do with that poor kitty cat's demise, too. However, on the other hand, thé cat could have been his pet. That means someone else could have killed the cat in an attempt to try to make the resident leave the premises. Just a thought!....M'y cat is in my lap right now. and I think I'll let her stay à good while longer. : )

Some of the pictures feel like old friends now, and i return to see them. It is quite calming.
Wonder how you are doing. May you always be well is my wish.
Had a lot to catch up with, so am still working my way through the vast amount of pictures in the albums. Truly Fun Every Day.
Never-ending story......

Is there really someone living here? Is it true?
Place is light enough, but yet forlorn, last hope gone and full of despair, and sorrow.
That is one very brave person!

Fifteen windows! At least! That is a light room! The lamps are so pretty, too. It is very good, the picture!

I have a trunk just like that, I restored it my self but have no idea what year its from. Your photos are amazing keep them coming.

I hope this poor cat still has seven or eight lives left and his next one he comes back to a loving owner who will take care of him and give him a long and happy life.

Something tells me the 'resident" did this...sick bastard

at lease the gurney is not alone.

It's fucked up that many people want to bring back the huge institutions with abusive employees, policies and procedures.

Flushed,
I too experienced institutional abuse that left me with PTSD. Its fucked up that so many people want to bring them back (not that they still don't exist in many forms.)

If it is a muscle stimulation machine as Motts says then it is probably a precursor to the TENS unit (Trancutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) that is used in physical therapy and given to athletes and people wiht constant pain.
I can see that it may also be a ECT machine. In fact it is logical that both may have come from the same research.
As for ECT it is a basically a noninvasive lobotomy. It is just as random and unpredictable and they know just as little about what is going on when they do it as they did about lobotomy's. The only way they can determine anything about either "treatment" is based on how the victim behaves after the fact.
ECT has never stopped in some countries and is making a come back in the US.

I had it done to me as a small boy age 5-7 as part of a regimen of torture and abuse while in protective custody ,and then again at the end with drugs to make me forget all the abuse and that I was ECT'd.
As you see I have remembered, and I can tell you that ECT is entirely harmful and does not do anyone any good in spite of what they might imagine. You'll see if you look it up that many victims of lobotomy said they were better too. And while it made me forget the abuse the damage that abuse causes was not removed with the memories so I had to live my life thinking that all the symptoms of abuse were my personal defects that I was born with. Not knowing why I had the problems I did and nothing anyone offered had any effect as it could never address the issues that ware hidden from me.

You may think you were helped but I assure you that you weren't the only thing that happened is that your brain was killed off in random sections and other parts were so damaged that the synapses cannot work properly. You'll sense what is there but not be able to get at it. You will think this is memory loss but it is not it is brain death and physically damaged synapses. .

There was a popular theory around the turn of the last century that maddness was caused by infection, so a few hospitals would first pull any suspect teeth, then the doctors really sold on the idea would start taking out internal organs (gall bladders, ovaries, etc.) that they suspected were diseased. Ended up killing some patients with post-op complications. At least one Doctor was driven out of business at the time when other Doctors called him on it.

Really not sure that the chemical imbalance theories are much better. The imbalances occur after treatment is given and then stopped, they don't occur before in untreated schizophrenics.