Severalls Hospital, England

Just found another hospital, exciting and creepy!

many people dosen't feel anything about abandoned places, but they hang a really special aura, and transmit something !!

There also were done electroshoking therapy and lobotomies, like in all the rest of mental asylums. 

Several of the female patients were committed by their families after birthing bastard children, often the result of being raped.

The hospital opened in 1913, and had shut down in 1997.  

Insane asylums of the past

Reading this article, I was just replaying Outlast !! They made it so real, as it was in the past.

Just read the reasons to be admitted in the asylum

1. Lobotomy

It was one of the most used treatements used to patients, it wouls result the patient became zombie, with no expression. 

2. Electroconvulsive therapy

Also known as shock therapy, the patients were subject to electric shocks to numb all their feelings and cure their illness.

2. Horrible conditions

Those who could not control themself, where hold in cages for days or even months or years.

Some asylums held as many as ten times the amount of patients it could hold and some just had only three attendees for these patients, leaving them to sleep in filth and their own excrement.

3. Left naked

The patiets were left naked and with no activity. There was no cleanliness and the patients were left to wallow in their own filth. 

The hospital were build to hold 2500 patients, but hold 6000 with o care and facilities.

4. Unquilifyied staff

There were small number of trained stuff, so they employed help from whenever they got it, no matter of the qualifications.

Blackwell prison hired prisoners to take care of the patients.

And the rest you know, terrible experiments made in patients, terrible facilities> patients were left in darkness at night, 

Asylum stories: most strange "cure" for patients

I always loved to see movies and play games with this genre. My favourite.

I loves playing Outlast, for its story, the stories of the patients, subjected to experiments, when they turn really insane. 

The medicaments sometimes could make the patient feel worst than when it was submitted to the hospital, because of the horrible experiments doctors made on them. Well, those poor patients always suffer the most, because of their illness and because of doctors who make experiments on them.

1. Asylums where doctors prescribed LSD

Dr. Abramson, the former director of research at the Amityville Insne Asylum, was called a Psychiatric Dracula by his collegues for his cruel methods. He would prescribes LSD to his patients.

He was involved in programme called MKULTRA in which he performed mind colntrol experiments for the CIA.

The doctor never told what he prescribed to his patients, so several of them turned addicted.

If you remember, this method was one of the used in Mount Massive asylum, in Outlast.The ones who have read the documents, will remember this.

2. Bethlam Royal Hospital in London

This asylum was desorganized and and insane. The word "bedlam" stands for confusion and noise. This is the oldest asylum in the world, admitting since 1357. Known by atrocious conditions and cruel treatments of its patients.

The public were invited to watch the victims in cages and even poke them with sticks.

3. Pilgram psychiatric center 

Centered in Long Island. Could house as many 14.000 patients at a time. 

This hospital used extremely agressive methods of curing. 

Lobotamy and electric shock therap were the norm. The doctors started using large doses of insulin and metrozol to drive patients into a violent coma, just to be rid of them. 

High Royds Hospital, Menston, West Yorkshire, England

It was first opened in 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic asylum. 

Treatment of the Victorian patient ranged from opium, the main sedative in the mid 19th century, to laudanum, bromide to chloral hydrate. Physical treatment included turkish or hot baths, wet sheet packs and electric stimulations.

Experience in hospitals wasn't required, if you were phisycally fit and be a good sportsman or able to play a musical instrument you were very likely to be offered a position. 

At one time the asylum included: ballroom, library, surgery, dispensary, butcher's, baker's, diary, even a ballroom. 

Abandoned but not forgotten: abandoned asylums

You know, I love mental hospitals, asylums, and I ssearched for thich ones are the most interesting, so I found several of them:

FOREST HAVEN ASYLUM

This photo reminds me of the asylum in a very bad game, but very recent (sorry, I don't remember the name, but the protagonist was a woman, maybe journalist...) 

Opened in 1925, this hospital was very progressive and high quality institution in treating mental problems. 

By the 1960, the hospital begun to dry up and devasting, and there were not suficient money for it, and they have charged slow budget employees. 

But then the doctors and nurses got crazy, and have begun to do gross experiments with patients, abuse them sexually,...

Hundred of patients died, and according to one report, some where subject of medical experiments before the hospital was shuttered in 1991. (oh! this is my  year of birth!!)

With buildings like this hospitals, why movies still building sets? xD 

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/forest-haven-asylum

THE WEYBURN MENTAL HOSPITAL

Opened in 1921, it quickly became one of Canada's most notorious psychiatrics institutions. It was the site of lobotomies, electric shock therapy and some of Canada's controversial LSD experiments. It was there that Dr. Humphrey Osmond coined the word "psychedelic" and was among the first administer LSD in psychiatric experiments.

In 1971,  the Weyburn Mental Hospital closed its doors and patients were transferred to other instituions. The building now stands abandoned as the govermment plans its demolition. (WHAT??? WHY???....)

Well, that's all for today, next time I will post more about abandoned asylums, 'cus I love this theme!!!

See you soon!!

Good night to all, and good morning for my USA friends!))

Mount Massive Asylum: Outlast

If you have played this game, you will love all related things to this asylum!

I love abandoned places, hospitals much more: It's a special place, where people where waiting for help, and in case of mental hospitals aka asylums, people just died there, without chance of coming out from there.

It's a place full of pain, tragic lives, suffering and death.

The most famous hospital from games we have, is the Mount Massive asylum, from Outlast.

Really, I don't know if there is really a map of thi plae, because its very, very, very big, giant place, with so many metres to the ground. Sorry for my US friends, I can't mesure in foots, but It could be tousands of them. The place is huge!

Actually, the creators based Mount Massive asylum in a real place, Richardson Olmsted Complex

Read about the hospital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Olmsted_Complex