1.0.310Simple CSS border180500010150000010100450000185000 Gallery 140010*Go back to the Main Index for this Gallery0© CathedralsOfDecay.com1310726214393211581010700IMG_1287overlayblue.jpg2006:04:15 23:20:10IMG_1287overlayblue> "'YOU'RE IT,' he said, 'now it's your turn to chase me!'" J/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1287overlayblue.jpg*File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1287overlayblue.jpg File size : 145482 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:15 23:20:10 Resolution : 590 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 27.0mm (35mm equivalent: 189mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.025 s (1/40) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s1.jpgs1.jpg1321800l1.jpgl1.jpg3685000IMG_1327overlay.jpg2006:04:15 23:48:06IMG_1327overlayÎ The speaker's voice had risen to a crescendo on "You're it." The moment's silence which followed was broken by thirty-two relieved sighs from thirty-two young throats. Then there were gales of laughter. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1327overlay.jpg(File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1327overlay.jpg File size : 152543 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:15 23:48:06 Resolution : 537 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 159.0mm (35mm equivalent: 1114mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.050 s (1/20) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 200 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s2.jpgs2.jpg1201800l2.jpgl2.jpg3355000IMG_1362overlay.jpg2006:04:16 02:51:39IMG_1362overlayThis story, told to a group of ten-year-old boys at a Hallowe'en party in 1926, no doubt made a lasting impact on their minds. For many of them, it must have been their first conscious impression of an "insane" or "crazy" person -- a person who is mentally ill. Since then, those boys have been bombarded with many others. From the newspapers, they have gained the impression that all mental patients are "sex maniacs" or "dangerous lunatics." From the movies has come the suggestion that all patients are either amnesia victims or defiant, homicidal paranoids. Family and friends have passed on to them the idea that mental patients are horrible creatures, something less than human, to be avoided at all costs. 23 In a way, the boys who heard the above story were fortunate. The "raving maniac" who only wanted to play tag is a much more accurate characterization of a mental patient than can be had from the papers, the movies or most uninformed people. Even this characterization is woefully inadequate, of course. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1362overlay.jpg&File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1362overlay.jpg File size : 219981 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 02:51:39 Resolution : 800 x 533 Flash used : No Focal length : 20.0mm (35mm equivalent: 140mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.040 s (1/25) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s3.jpgs3.jpg1801190l3.jpgl3.jpg5003330IMG_1368overlay.jpg2006:04:16 02:59:42IMG_1368overlay1 Nearly all of those boys who heard the story twenty years ago are still getting along with an inadequate, infantile understanding of mental patients. They still refer to sick people as "insane" or "crazy." Like most American citizens, they are still ignorant of the nation's number-one health problem. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1368overlay.jpg&File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1368overlay.jpg File size : 218563 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 02:59:42 Resolution : 800 x 637 Flash used : No Focal length : 20.0mm (35mm equivalent: 140mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.033 s (1/30) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s4.jpgs4.jpg1801430l4.jpgl4.jpg5003980IMG_1386overlay.jpg2006:04:16 03:14:00IMG_1386overlayó For mental illness is our greatest health problem! It is eating away at our national vitality and strength, sapping the very life blood from our veins, and endangering all our hopes and aspirations. Still we remain complacent and uninformed. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1386overlay.jpg&File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1386overlay.jpg File size : 241133 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 03:14:00 Resolution : 533 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 20.0mm (35mm equivalent: 140mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.050 s (1/20) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s5.jpgs5.jpg1191800l5.jpgl5.jpg3335000IMG_1393overlay.jpg2006:04:16 03:19:21IMG_1393overlayUFigures alone cannot record the toll which mental illness takes in this country, but facts and authoritative estimates indicate that mental illness: 27 -- fills forty-five percent of all the hospital beds in the country with its more than 600,000 incapacitated victims. 28 -- sends over 175,000 persons to the hospital each year. 29 -- costs us $300,000,000 a year for direct care. 30 -- costs us over a billion dollars a year in lost earning power. -- causes inestimable loss through unhappiness, misery, broken homes, shattered careers and inefficient people. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1393overlay.jpg&File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1393overlay.jpg File size : 130111 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 03:19:21 Resolution : 800 x 588 Flash used : No Focal length : 37.0mm (35mm equivalent: 259mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.013 s (1/80) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s6.jpgs6.jpg1801320l6.jpgl6.jpg5003670IMG_1410overlay.jpg2006:04:16 04:33:48IMG_1410overlayH In spite of these facts, we are still playing ostrich. We are still hiding our heads in the sand and refusing to look this great national problem in the face. The six hundred thousand citizens who reside in our mental hospitals today are truly "out of sight, out of mind." This book is the story of these forgotten thousands. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1410overlay.jpgFile name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1410overlay.jpg File size : 137346 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 04:33:48 Resolution : 586 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 29.0mm (35mm equivalent: 203mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.600 s Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s7.jpgs7.jpg1311800l7.jpgl7.jpg3665000IMG_1429overlay.jpg2006:04:16 04:59:36IMG_1429overlay3One of the boys who heard the Hallowe'en story twenty years ago is partly responsible for the writing of this book. He did not remain ignorant. For two years he worked in a mental hospital. He came to know intimately several hundred so-called "crazy" people, and he discovered that they are just like other people. He found that each patient in a mental hospital has emotions and ideas, likes and dislikes, hopes and fears. He found that each one is an individual personality, humorous or pathetic, mischievous or helpful, loving or hateful. 34 He also discovered that many mental patients live in conditions and under circumstances unlike those endured by any other group of people in the country. He began to wonder if those conditions alone were not enough to drive almost any person "out of his mind." He wrote a report about some of the things he personally witnessed. That report is the basis of one of the sixty-three factual, eyewitness accounts of life in mental hospitals which compose the following chapters. Over two thousand similar reports were used in the preparation of this book. Every person depicted is a real person; every place described is a real place; every event recorded actually occurred -- and they all took place in mental hospitals in the United States within the last five years, 1942-46. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1429overlay.jpg)File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1429overlay.jpg File size : 282090 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 04:59:36 Resolution : 800 x 506 Flash used : No Focal length : 40.0mm (35mm equivalent: 280mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.0004 s (1/2500) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s8.jpgs8.jpg1801130l8.jpgl8.jpg5003160IMG_1432overlay.jpg2006:04:16 05:09:30IMG_1432overlayž In the following chapters you will be given a glimpse of mental patients and the conditions in which they live. The picture will not be beautiful, but it will be interesting and accurate. You will be taken behind the impressive facades of imposing institutions, and there you will meet doctors, nurses, attendants and patients face to face. After reading these pages, the forgotten thousands in our mental hospitals will no longer be "out of sight." You will have seen them. Neither will they be "out of mind." You will have known them and known their problems. A gate which has long been closed to you and to most ordinary citizens swings open beyond this page. F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1432overlay.jpg(File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1432overlay.jpg File size : 135758 bytes File date : 2006:08:24 07:31:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 05:09:30 Resolution : 800 x 533 Flash used : No Focal length : 40.0mm (35mm equivalent: 280mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.0040 s (1/250) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s9.jpgs9.jpg1801190l9.jpgl9.jpg5003330IMG_1471overlay.jpg2006:04:16 07:08:27IMG_1471overlayu"In every state there have been recurring scandals of flagrant misappropriation of funds in mental hospitals or homes for the retarded. A tour of some of the more decent wards accessible to the public would shock the average citizen into action. But since the conditions still exist, it appears that few are interested." --Frances Farmer. "Will There Really Be A Tomorrow?"F/sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1471overlay.jpg)File name : /sites/photoslave/public_ftp/*SITE_REBUILD/BYBERRY/IMG_1471overlay.jpg File size : 212198 bytes File date : 2006:08:25 15:21:00 Camera make : Canon Camera model : Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT Date/Time : 2006:04:16 07:08:27 Resolution : 621 x 800 Flash used : No Focal length : 70.0mm (35mm equivalent: 490mm) CCD width : 5.14mm Exposure time: 0.0006 s (1/1600) Aperture : f/4.0 ISO equiv. : 400 Whitebalance : Manual Metering Mode: matrix Exposure : Manual Exposure Mode: Manual Exposure Mode: Auto bracketing s10.jpgs10.jpg1391800l10.jpgl10.jpg3885000