That's Insane!

turkeychuck Published 05/05/2014

Another peek into what it's like in insane asylums. IMO, the treatment of these people is what's insane.

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I wonder if the patient in this room ever got out
2.
Mouth gag, used to prop mouth open for procedures such as dentistry or tonsillectomy. Used in a mental health hospital in Victoria, Australia, circa 1930
3.
Ohio, United States, 1946 - Patients peering from barred windows of an insane asylum
4.
'The Fridge'... Lenin Mitasov suffered from a psychiatric condition that led him to cover all surfaces in his apartment with inscriptions, often in several layers.
5.
Byberry Mental Hospital
6.
Well this has got to suck big time
7.
Old juvenile asylum...no date
8.
Child candidates for compulsory sterilization, waiting for the court's decision, 1934
9.
A ward for non-violent women at the West Riding Asylum in Wakefield, England. Most of these patients had terminal dementia. The bonnets these women are wearing was common for female psychiatric patients at this time., 1860
10.
Welcome to the end of your life
11.
Unclaimed cremation urns
12.
Letchworth Village patients
13.
Preparing a patient for shock therapy, 1951
14.
The death tunnel at Waverly Hills Sanitarium, this is where they took the dead bodies out of the facility
15.
Tranquilizer chair
16.
AN asylum beauty salon. Isn't is lovely?
17.
A casebook photograph from 1884, showing a patient wearing padded gloves as a form of restraint
18.
Abandoned state hospital, casket and grave markers...
19.
1968...this is so sad
20.
Colney Hatch asylum records
21.
22.
The whirling chair for treatment of mental illness
23.
The diagrammatic writings of an asylum patient, 1870
24.
Anders Petersen, Mental Hospital, 1995
25.
Serbia children's asylum
26.
Taking an insane to asylum in chains, 1940
27.
Stairs to hell: These stairs lead to the the mental therapy unit haunted by entities who died in the institution from malnutrition, beatings and EST. The institution in Wisconsin closed because of cut backs in government funding in 1918. The remaining patients were released to the community. Murders and molestation, within the area increased by 400 within the first 6 months of the closure of the institution.

1.
I wonder if the patient in this room ever got out
2.
Mouth gag, used to prop mouth open for procedures such as dentistry or tonsillectomy. Used in a mental health hospital in Victoria, Australia, circa 1930
3.
Ohio, United States, 1946 - Patients peering from barred windows of an insane asylum
4.
'The Fridge'... Lenin Mitasov suffered from a psychiatric condition that led him to cover all surfaces in his apartment with inscriptions, often in several layers.
5.
Byberry Mental Hospital
6.
Well this has got to suck big time
7.
Old juvenile asylum...no date
8.
Child candidates for compulsory sterilization, waiting for the court's decision, 1934
9.
A ward for non-violent women at the West Riding Asylum in Wakefield, England. Most of these patients had terminal dementia. The bonnets these women are wearing was common for female psychiatric patients at this time., 1860
10.
Welcome to the end of your life
11.
Unclaimed cremation urns
12.
Letchworth Village patients
13.
Preparing a patient for shock therapy, 1951
14.
The death tunnel at Waverly Hills Sanitarium, this is where they took the dead bodies out of the facility
15.
Tranquilizer chair
16.
AN asylum beauty salon. Isn't is lovely?
17.
A casebook photograph from 1884, showing a patient wearing padded gloves as a form of restraint
18.
Abandoned state hospital, casket and grave markers...
19.
1968...this is so sad
20.
Colney Hatch asylum records
21.
22.
The whirling chair for treatment of mental illness
23.
The diagrammatic writings of an asylum patient, 1870
24.
Anders Petersen, Mental Hospital, 1995
25.
Serbia children's asylum
26.
Taking an insane to asylum in chains, 1940
27.
Stairs to hell: These stairs lead to the the mental therapy unit haunted by entities who died in the institution from malnutrition, beatings and EST. The institution in Wisconsin closed because of cut backs in government funding in 1918. The remaining patients were released to the community. Murders and molestation, within the area increased by 400 within the first 6 months of the closure of the institution.