1.0.316Simple CSS border180500010150000010100450000185000 Gallery 120010*Go back to the Main Index for this Gallery0© CathedralsOfDecay.com1310726214393211581010700west_on - 022.jpg2006:03:27 09:00:10 west_on - 022I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. -Antonin Artaud C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 022.jpgñFile name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 022.jpg File size : 232556 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY Camera model : KODAK V550 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA Date/Time : 2006:03:27 09:00:10 Resolution : 594 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 6.2mm (35mm equivalent: 36mm) Exposure time: 0.125 s (1/8) Aperture : f/2.8 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Auto Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : program (auto) s1.jpgs1.jpg1331800l1.jpgl1.jpg3715000west_on - 032.jpg2006:03:28 21:15:25 west_on - 032GIn 1992, U.S. Representative Patricia Schroeder of Colorado held hearings investigating the practices of psychiatric hospitals in the United States. Rep. Schroeder summarized her committee's findings as follows: "Our investigation has found that thousands of adolescents, children, and adults have been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment they didn't need; that hospitals hire bounty hunters to kidnap patients with mental health insurance; that patients are kept against their will until their insurance benefits run out; that psychiatrists are being pressured by the hospitals to increase profit; that hospitals 'infiltrate' schools by paying kickbacks to school counselors who deliver students; that bonuses are paid to hospital employees, including psychiatrists, for keeping the hospital beds filled; and that military dependents are being targeted for their generous mental health benefits. I could go on, but you get the picture" (quoted in: Lynn Payer, Disease- Mongers: How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers Are Making You Feel Sick, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992, pp. 234-235).C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 032.jpg$File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 032.jpg File size : 134526 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 21:15:25 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.025 s (1/40) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 1600 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s2.jpgs2.jpg1191800l2.jpgl2.jpg3335000west_on - 034.jpg2006:03:28 21:18:07 west_on - 034oAt certain periods of life we live years of emotion in a few weeks; and look back on those times as great gaps between the old life and the new. You do not know how much you suffer in those critical maladies of the heart, until the disease is over, and you look on it afterward. The day passes in more or less of pain, and the night wears away somehow. -- THACKERAY.C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 034.jpg$File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 034.jpg File size : 123672 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 21:18:07 Resolution : 521 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.025 s (1/40) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 1600 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s3.jpgs3.jpg1171800l3.jpgl3.jpg3255000west_on - 051.jpg2006:03:28 21:39:41 west_on - 051;We Americans cannot justly be proud of the way we have dealt with our nation's most important health problem. Mental disorders affect more of us than cancer, tuberculosis and infantile paralysis combined. Severe mental illness fills forty-five percent of all hospital beds in the country with its victims. Yet most of us have been sadly unaware of its extent, falsely confident that adequate care is generally available, and blindly indifferent to its disastrous effects, both social and economic, upon our national life. Out of sight, out of mind. -Frank L. Wright, Jr. C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 051.jpg$File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 051.jpg File size : 194426 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 21:39:41 Resolution : 722 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.020 s (1/50) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 1600 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s4.jpgs4.jpg1621800l4.jpgl4.jpg4515000west_on - 069.jpg2006:03:28 21:55:14 west_on - 069tI thought I was in an insane asylum. I thought I had to scream so that someone would help me get out. -Vivien Leigh C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 069.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 069.jpg File size : 168515 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 21:55:14 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 100 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s5.jpgs5.jpg1191800l5.jpgl5.jpg3335000west_on - 079.jpg2006:03:28 22:12:21 west_on - 079GThe first thing I remember which seems to savor of Insanity was a presentiment of some great evil which was to befall me, either in my own person, or to those nearest and dearest to me, then I had a vivid imagination, and was much inclined to day dreams or building air castles, and this added to a morbid sensitiveness to reproach, or ridicule, made me often very unhappy. I fancied that if I was to leave home for a while should I find something to banish trouble. I left my parents to spend a winter among friends and relatives, yet the grim phantom of coming evil haunted my slumbers, and I found, like Noah’s dove, no rest for the sole of my foot. I was ashamed to tell my friends the fears which tormented me, at length became so weary of myself that life seemed a burden. -author, A Chapter From Real Life. By A Recovered PatientC/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 079.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 079.jpg File size : 174614 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 22:12:21 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s6.jpgs6.jpg1191800l6.jpgl6.jpg3335000west_on - 081.jpg2006:03:28 22:14:37 west_on - 081ŽThe fear, to be sure, was absurd, but in the lurid lexicon of Unreason there is no such word as "absurd." -Clifford Whittingham Beers (1910)C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 081.jpg$File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 081.jpg File size : 176481 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 22:14:37 Resolution : 524 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 1600 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s7.jpgs7.jpg1171800l7.jpgl7.jpg3275000west_on - 086.jpg2006:03:28 22:33:52 west_on - 086Z Psychiatric and psychological "diagnosis" is arbitrary and unreliable. Furthermore, the supposed experts responsible for these "diagnoses" are usually biased in favor of commitment because of their personal economic concerns or their affiliation with the psychiatric "hospital" where the "patient" is or will be confined. Psychiatric "hospitals", like all businesses, need customers. In the case of psychiatric "hospitals", they need patients. They not only want patients, they need them to stay in business. -Lawrence Stevens, J.D., "UNJUSTIFIED PSYCHIATRIC COMMITMENT in the U.S.A." C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 086.jpg$File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 086.jpg File size : 150436 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 22:33:52 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 1600 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s8.jpgs8.jpg1191800l8.jpgl8.jpg3335000west_on - 087.jpg2006:03:28 22:36:27 west_on - 087|The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. -Thomas Paine C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 087.jpg$File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 087.jpg File size : 172247 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 22:36:27 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 1600 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s9.jpgs9.jpg1191800l9.jpgl9.jpg3335000west_on - 093.jpg2006:03:28 22:44:14 west_on - 093No specific remedy for insanity has as yet been discovered. Different cases require very different treatment, and that which would be serviceable at one period of the complaint, might be injurious at another. -Amariah Brigham, "The Medical Treatment Of Insanity" C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 093.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 093.jpg File size : 117546 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 22:44:14 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s10.jpgs10.jpg1191800l10.jpgl10.jpg3335000west_on - 095.jpg2006:03:28 22:47:27 west_on - 095äBut you, gentle reader, shall not say the same, for the author of this is about to startle the world, and 'the rest of mankind,' with a disclosure that shall make the learned Doctors of mad men, and rotten rogues tremble, and gladden the hearts of many a poor, man forsaken, kindred deserted, suffering, perishing being, shut within the walls of the innumerable Bastiles [sic] of our land, ycleped Insane Asylums. -Isaac H. Hunt, "Astounding Disclosures! Three Years In A Mad House" C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 095.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 095.jpg File size : 114784 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:09:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 22:47:27 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s11.jpgs11.jpg1191800l11.jpgl11.jpg3335000west_on - 097.jpg2006:03:28 23:21:00 west_on - 097jFor us and our tragedy, Here's stooping to your elemeney - We beg your hearing patiently. -Shakspeare. C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 097.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 097.jpg File size : 197532 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:10:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 23:21:00 Resolution : 477 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 33.0mm (35mm equivalent: 167mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s12.jpgs12.jpg1071800l12.jpgl12.jpg2985000west_on - 102.jpg2006:03:28 23:54:19 west_on - 102CSome nights I could not sleep; tortures and dreams of the most horrid kind agitated me; fiery thoughts and wild fancies hovered over my brain; thus in this horrible mood would I pray for the return of day. The next night, medicine would put me in the most deadly stupor -- a sleep of unconscious heaviness. -Isaac H. Hunt C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 102.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 102.jpg File size : 127094 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:10:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 23:54:19 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 33.0mm (35mm equivalent: 167mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s13.jpgs13.jpg1191800l13.jpgl13.jpg3335000west_on - 104.jpg2006:03:28 23:58:20 west_on - 104ÁI shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded. -Nellie Bly C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 104.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 104.jpg File size : 122039 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:10:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 23:58:20 Resolution : 800 x 526 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s14.jpgs14.jpg1801180l14.jpgl14.jpg5003280west_on - 106.jpg2006:03:28 23:58:37 west_on - 106¤Dr. McFarland, it is my honest opinion that the principles upon which you treat the inmates of this institution, are contrary to reason, to justice, to humanity. They are treated in a very insane planner -- in a manner the best calculated to make maniacs that human ingenuity could devise. No human being can be subjected to the process to which you subject them here, without being in great danger of becoming insane; especially, if their physical or mental constitution is in the least degree impaired. 788 Your discipline is invariably calculated to increase their difficulties, and make them worse rather than better. And even a person with a sound mind, and a sound body, could hardly pass through a course here and come out unharmed, without; faith and such faith as is needed to sustain the soul in passing through its deepest earthly trials. -Elizabeth P. W. Packard , "Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled"C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 106.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 106.jpg File size : 148008 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 08:10:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:28 23:58:37 Resolution : 582 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 34.0mm (35mm equivalent: 172mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s15.jpgs15.jpg1301800l15.jpgl15.jpg3635000west_on - 137.jpg2006:03:29 03:45:50 west_on - 137¦Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. -Soren Kierkegaard C/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 137.jpg#File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/WESTON/west_on - 137.jpg File size : 148483 bytes File date : 2006:08:26 16:31:41 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:03:29 03:45:50 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 33.0mm (35mm equivalent: 167mm) CCD width : 7.12mm Exposure time: 0.017 s (1/60) Aperture : f/4.5 ISO equiv. : 800 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s16.jpgs16.jpg1191800l16.jpgl16.jpg3335000