Danvers State Insane Asylum Laboratory Papers

[@Leasafb1]

This truly brings back horrible memories of the way they were mistreated

[@tracyhallsworth5877]

I have a vague memory of visiting my mom there when I was about 6. I have ALWAYS felt an eerie feeling about that place but never was discussed amongst my family 😞

[@colleenquinn7158]

Hugs to you my dear, my mother also stayed here years ago.Treatment didnt help and she lost her battle, committing suicide in '.78

[@rememrald30]

inactivity equals- sensory deprivation- almost causes the same symptoms

[@rememrald30]

no one comes to visit= my friends have turned against me- the Italian patient

[@joanbioanthro7462]

My mother worked there during WW2 era and she told me that she held the patients down for shock treatments and that she walked them back to their rooms and they were so quiet. Also, Germans hiding from the war were sent there . she said she wasn't afraid and it wasn't haunted at all. Now I understand why my family was so disfunctional and that she treated us just like the patients. I think it rubbed off on her. Horrible. It is fact that there is no diagnosis for mental illness just assumption and that now a days it's all about the money and the pharmacutical companies.

[@rememrald30]

the Italian probably spoke in Italian and was talking about where he lived outside the institution

[@Leasafb1]

I worked there from 1977 to 1980.

[@Tylnorton]

Do you know why they closed the building down?

[@Leasafb1]

Yes I did hear that.

[@Tylnorton]

Why did they close it?

[@Leasafb1]

They shut all of them down back in the 80's when the courts ruled it unconstitutional to hold people in settings like that.

[@Tylnorton]

Interesting.

[@rememrald30]

that sounds close- tuberculosis-

[@rememrald30]

in other words the one patient had no where to go-

[@dsbup]

Thanks for posting this video. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Fascinating, though in a grisly kind of way.

[@ThaRayman]

Great work!

[@debralittle1341]

Who cares about the workers. It's the people locked inside who suffer.

[@Senacacrane]

Wow just wow 😮

[@loveycat5474]

Hello Gordon!

[@spencerjohnson2911]

"What of people were there? What were the patients like?" My guess would be... Insane.. Crazy even?? 🤔

[@hungryghost502]

Do yourself a favor and mute the sound. It's just racket throughout the whole video.

[@Ovenovitch]

That's a Nine Inch Nails song

[@rememrald30]

some of the things the patients said sound like hidden abuse

[@emmam837]

If you go on the hill at my school you can very clearly see the outside of the building

[@lylecosmopolite]

I read in Chicago in the 1970s that if a man being tried for murder exposed himself to a forensic phychiatrist and began masturbating, and the psychiatrist reported this matter to the sentencing judge, the result was "not guilty by reason of insanity." And that this easy out was common knowledge on the streets of Chicago. Adult masturbation with witnesses was then seen as a savage assault on sexual propriety.

[@DoctorColonelGonzo]

@mrs3Quator I apologize for any typos in the text. A video of this length actually takes me well over 30 hours to make, so some typing errors can be missed as you can imagine. Fresh eyes aren't always available to me for proofreading. As for the medical text, it was full of grammatical errors and antiquated terms that I decided to leave in. I wanted the video to feel like you found these papers and were reading them as is. I probably should have mentioned it in the video. Thanks for the feedback

[@DoctorColonelGonzo]

@AlabasterDog Thanks for the recognition and sub!

[@rememrald30]

was there enough heat in there- extrememties blue- wtf

[@judyloukides]

The typos in the text were distracting, but the story is interesting. In the 1920s, people confined to mental hospitals or institutions for the mentally handicapped were used for experiments without their or their family's knowledge. They're documented at McLean Hospital and the Fernald School for the Blind. I wonder if experiments were conducted at Danvers as well?

[@ryansmith4748]

I c cvs any even watch this with sound the music is freaking me out!

[@LarsonsMom]

And in the year 2011, most of these patients would be on medication and living productive lives in society.

[@tracyhallsworth5877]

Even more interesting...the propert was bought and turned into condos. A big fire first..then many other strange occurences

[@colleenquinn7158]

yeah, not 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓽𝓮 a true statement. In 1971, in the town of 𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝕸𝖆 and surrounding areas did not have adequate health services for the mentally ill, abused and Alzheimer's and dementia. Alot of the elders were put into nursing homes often blending assisted living,long term care and hospice together. Pyschiatrists were often not licensed and extremley costly for poor families.

[@1977jackyl]

for those who dont know, i mean "session 9"

[@Kizzoaga]

Sad to know that people in the past suffering from depression where so miss-understood. For you see a bright mind can be the brightest star shown but if he/she where to stumble then to the bowls they will go. Im saddened for you see this still occurs. take it from a being who has been thru it all. Perhaps compassion and understandandment is all that should be known... yet we turn a blind eye to those we dont condone. Ill fight for those who havent lost their soul yet but are close 2 turn cold.

[@Leasafb1]

Back then it took nothing for them to classify you as a crazy person. Very sad indeed.

[@LindaBkrWms]

I am wondering where the are records of mentally normal persons being left here. After working with MRDD for years i had come across a few people ,now in their 50's and older that were put in mental institutions when there was no room in adoption agencies.They were sadly forgotten, their only influence were mentally ill people which seriously altered their social and mental development.

[@hjuklingur]

Anything like Straight jacket or Electret Chair or something in this mental hospital?

[@rememrald30]

irish and the sign saying is we dont hire irish here- which is why the irish started the unions- they werent being paid

[@rememrald30]

chemicals at work???????????????????

[@ThaRayman]

@pompom11 You actually live there now? Amazing. I have to imagine that there must be a LOT of residual energy around after all those years of so many people, sicknesses, pain, torture.... :S

[@kuronadargarth7170]

very useful for my novel research!!

[@ulaff]

I find this interesting and the biggest thing that struck be was the Nova Scotian man, especially since that's my province and his actions reminds me of an elder family member. It just struck home. Thanks for the video.

[@johncromar8382]

They made them that way through captive experimentation.The proprietors are the torturous weirdos. Study more

[@DoctorColonelGonzo]

@brendaeileen Your probably right on that. The medical terms in the video are over 100 years old. I left the text exactly how it was originally written. Dementia Praecox was the term they used before schizophrenia.

[@brendaeileen]

I know a schizophrenic who thinks he has 2 hearts also!

[@rememrald30]

nothing to do but play dumb cards- and what kind of medication was given?????????????? nothing to do but stare- and then someone is katatonic- where are my family members- wheres a working phone- where are some other communication tools such as paper correspondence materials

[@DoctorColonelGonzo]

I actually didn't know that. Sounds very interesting though and I'll have to check that out.

[@Lgrace]

i thought the place closed in 1992 why do the years go to 2006 in the opening of the video

[@WhiteWolfBlackStar]

YOU DESERVE A SUB FOR THIS... big time brownie points BIG TIME!

[@Asoftenkameshee]

what is the soundtrack at 4:29? :)

[@rememrald30]

weve come a long way. that woman could have had diabetis, ms, or a number of other things.

[@brendaeileen]

I bet the woman who they mention (the first patient), had disorganized schizophrenia.... Maybe catatonic schizophrenia as well.

[@rememrald30]

nasty - why Margaret pushed for birth control

[@pompom11]

I live here now, you can see the windows to my apartment in this video, on the 3rd floor female side (southwest). Avalon developers kept the center main building and tore down the "batwings" and built new wood apartments. I sold my house and living here temporarily. Those black and white movies you see are from the movie Home Before Dark filmed here in 1958, when I was 3 years old. My great grandfather was head carpenter here, now I live here, how odd, how strange. Check out other Danvers posts

[@napoleonwilson2249]

pompom11 any activity ?

[@rememrald30]

sure- maybe she had anorexia

[@rememrald30]

i think they just didnt like irish people lots of tb in that hospital

[@MarjorieNardini]

Please rethink your music...Its annoying and not conducive to reading. If your topic is factual and well presented, music should compliment rather the overwhelm the video..I say this with kindness as I was genuinely interested but immediately turned off by the tunes. would hate to see others turned away by the same issue. Hoping to see more...

[@DoctorColonelGonzo]

Good point! I referenced this in my Salem Witch video. Check it out if you get a chance.

[@1977jackyl]

dude let me tell you right now....i used to work at Danvers State. granted it was only a security gig, however yes ive been inside. and ive never seen anything happen. yes i realize that does NOT mean nothing happened. im sure the stories were true. i dont do well with horror films but i thought that id check this one out cuz i used to work there, let me tell ya....this movie was a FUCKING JOKE!

[@monicapadilla2862]

liessssss

[@OoozesOSRS]

1:10 you're*

[@matthewsteenburghen]

Spoiler alert: Okay, maybe not. Though there's an undercurrent of this. And Trump wants to bring back insane asylums....

[@markbowman6655]

Another great idea for Mr. Trump, the mentally ill need to be cared for, not neglected and pushed out in the street, made homeless like President Reagan did.

[@missmiawallis706]

Natzi mentality

[@donnamerrell2687]

It's you're not your. Check your grammar.