I'm so happy that you continue to support and be interested in the channel and our work here - your ongoing presence is more of a blessing to our work here than you know. I'm also very glad that our paths have been able to cross on a personal level in these ways, and very grateful for how they continue to run parallel to each other on this channel :-)
Thank you so much for having taken the time to view and comment on this video, and thank you even more for your continued interest in and support of this channel, too. We continue to be on a very important journey that is immensely needed, and your continued presence within it is a true blessing.
Thank you so much for having taken the time to view and comment on this video. And thank you for your continued interest in and support of the channel, as well. We continue to be on a very important journey here at this channel, and I'm very happy to continue having you along for the ride :-)
Oh my goodness you have done it again with another fascinating informative video. I was absolutely enthralled watching this. This was such a huge place with so very many buildings. My husband just told me his father worked there as a nurse in the 60s and 70s. Thank you again for shedding light on these institutions and how far we have come.
I think that, at least to me, this may have been one of the more interesting, more historically relevant insane-asylums-turned-state-hospitals. It was the only such facility to have ever been created on the Federal level - at least back in its time and for a very long time after its creation. There was an immense wealth of historical data from which to gather the facility's history and numerous images - both historical and more current - from which to select and use. The story of its history and the experiences of those who found themselves having to spend time there are both heart-touching and heart-wrenching, as well. And thank you for your continued interest in and support of this channel. We remain on a very important journey on this channel, and it's very good to have you along for the ride :-)
May the souls lost in this place find their way home. R.I.P. beautiful ones.🖤💔😢 Your videos are exquisitely done with the history, photographs, and music that pulls me in to another time and place.
Your comments are always so kind and supportive, and they always touch my heart more than you know, too. So thank you so much for your continued interest in and support of our channel here. The work that we are seeking to do is important, the need for it is immense, and your presence within it is a blessing. And on a personal note, I've viewed some of your artwork and it's both amazing and beautiful. I very much enjoyed getting to see and study it :-)
My hrandmother was here on and off most of her life..i am in complete tears...she had epilepsy and schizophrenia. My grandfather beat the crap out of her when she had an episode. Then he just brcame drunk. My grandmother had electric shock therapy and ice baths...she died in the 80s at 62..I pray for her daily. I have bipolar.
I continue to be fascinated and deeply touched by the viewers of these videos that share comments upon them regarding their own personal histories with them, whether they be first-hand or through the experiences of other family members and friends. Thank you so much for having shared your own family's history regarding this particular facility, too. If our nation wants to truly move forward in its understanding of and care for the mentally ill and the mentally disabled, then we must remember the lessons and the accomplishments of yesterday, and the countless people who suffered so much toward making it all possible today. We have come so far and learned so much in regards to today's treatment of the mentally ill and the mentally disabled. But, as far as we have come, we continue to have so much farther that we still need to go. And we will never be able to move forward in truly meaningful ways until we find it within ourselves to remember all of the times, people, and places that went before. How can we fully tackle today and embrace the future unless we also remember the past, honor those who went before within it, and apply the accomplishments and lessons that were learned toward all of our efforts today?
It's hard to imagine a group of reporters standing around a doctor in his office as he performs such a crude brain procedure with no anesthetics, no assistance, not even possessing the qualifications required for the procedure, and all in the non-sterile environment...and yet that's exactly what Walter Freeman did on numerous occasions. During one such encounter, and as the reporters looked on, his patient died instantly upon the table...to which Freeman simply went on to the next patient with no show of concern or comment upon the dead patient.
There would be no reason to include the possessive apostrophe in Elizabeths, as it was not actually her hospital. It is just a name, not a designation of ownership.
Beautiful, just a wonderful presentation. My my, we humans are so damned short sighted! On big undertakings like these campuses the majority don't seem to think it through. Just like our Economy, just use perpetual growth... um, because that works so well. ugh Sadly we as a species, deserve the horrors of a monetary system because our nature hasn't evolved in thousands of years! Maybe one day we'll learn a tad and stop repeating this horrific nightmare .
Yes, I think that, to a large degree, future generations failed to adequately grasp the greatness of what those long-ago creators and builders of our mental health care system originally envisioned and sought to build. The initial pioneers and founding fathers of our nation's mental health care system - going back to the 1800s - had very altruistic goals and the purest of motives when it came to tending properly to the mentally ill and the mentally disabled...and, to a large degree, those who came after them would more and more failed to follow their high examples and thus fail more and more short of the goals that they had strived toward. And not only did the mentally ill and the mentally disabled suffer as a result, but all of society was made to suffer as well, though perhaps at times in less than obvious ways that might not have been easy to perceive initially. It is impossible for one facet of our country to suffer and to not affect all other facets of our country in doing so, however, just as we can't sink somebody else's end of the boat without simultaneously sinking our own, too. And sadly, I feel that this is a truth that much of country still struggles to learn and come to grips with.
@@atouristinthelandofreason5284 absolutely! "one facet of our country", is a good term. We are 8 billion minds now which is a unheard of population in our recorded history and No two people see alike! Ive noticed that every generation has a few real bright minds that are examples of what to do. Sadly we know what the next statement always is. The episode on greystone psychiatric hospital is particularly disturbing since a few BAD APPLES are repeating exactly the same behavior that got the places shut down for!
