1,656 Comments for Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital

Reminds me of Mark Ryden paintings

http://www.markryden.com/paintings/index.html

That is depressing. That really is... im sorry you had to see that motts. I really am.

bit scary aint it

it is a bit scary

wheel chairs are call becuase you can wheelie them

I just read a book called The Death of the Asylum: A Critical Study of State Hospital Management, Services, and Care. It's dated, but provides an in-depth view of the root causes of failures in state-run psychiatric facilities, and may be of help.

Ashley, What university are you at? You can find alot of good, helpful info. on this site if you read the comments from Lynne, she has vast knowledge of the many aspects of how state hospitals are ran. lol lucie

Wow.

I don't get why these people were treated so bad. I am doing a research paper and your site is helping me and aweful lot. I am doing it on how mentally ill people need to be treated better. I read somewhere that in Europe, and man with down syndrome was chained to a metal crib for eleven years (since he was ten). This picture reminded me of that. It's horrible really.

The scrawled writing makes it look creepy...maybe that's the irony, the advice itself is written in a creepy looking way. I'd give the inverse more credit-a depressed person is less motivated to care about appearance but someone feeling better takes more pride in looking good.

Funny...vague recollections of things known as "ditto sheets" and purple ink...wonder how that's different from a mimeograph. -Haha, how would I know, I've never had to get my hands smudged making copies :) Multi-lith? Maybe it graphed more than one lith at a time, LOL!

Men are no bed of roses, either.

falling out of a wheelchair is one thing, loosing your pants another, But is that underwear crumpled up on the floor too????

wow, the patient actually had a choice, sit awhile, lay awhile

i think it was used to wheel someone around on their stomach, and a bucket to drool in or worse, sad situation indeed