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Posted by zazenducke on February 12, 2008, at 11:53:12
The Lives they Left Behind
http://suitcaseexhibit.org/flashSite.html
I think the suitcases of the dead would be poignant in any event but these were left behind by longterm patients at a state hospital in New York.
Posted by JoniS on February 12, 2008, at 14:40:26
In reply to The Willard Suitcase exhibit, posted by zazenducke on February 12, 2008, at 11:53:12
Is it because I am already depressed, or is this one of the saddest things you've ever seen???
Ugh ... makes me want to cry.
Posted by Sigismund on February 12, 2008, at 17:14:38
In reply to The Willard Suitcase exhibit SAD, posted by JoniS on February 12, 2008, at 14:40:26
There's never much to anyone (so it seems) when you go through their things after they've gone.
I was struck by some of the faces, and felt sorry for what their life became.
I'm thinking of the phillipino man.
He seemd as sane as a bell.
Posted by Emily Elizabeth on February 12, 2008, at 21:05:59
In reply to The Willard Suitcase exhibit, posted by zazenducke on February 12, 2008, at 11:53:12
Thanks for posting that. It's haunting and it really makes you think.
Best,
EE
Posted by Wittgensteinz on February 14, 2008, at 3:45:11
In reply to The Willard Suitcase exhibit, posted by zazenducke on February 12, 2008, at 11:53:12
Thanks for the link. I found this site fascinating and deeply moving. The history of asylums and mental institutions is very interesting to me. I was reading just the other day about the history of Meninger and how the rise of managed care has had such an effect on its resources and led to its relocation.
It's amazing that there were still patients kept locked up in institutions (ok, by this point they were institutionalised so perhaps alternatives were limited) right up into the 70s/80s/90s - the seemingly trivial reasons for their admittance, the lack of treatment and reassessment are disturbing.
Witti
Posted by rskontos on February 14, 2008, at 8:19:35
In reply to The Willard Suitcase exhibit, posted by zazenducke on February 12, 2008, at 11:53:12
The really moving part in so many of these cases is the fact that several of them were given the chance to leave the institution but refused because even those that had family were now "institutionalized" by their own minds. Some were never even on meds while in the place: truly mistakenly placed yet left to languish with a life unfulfilled. My heart aches for them all.
I listened to most of the tapes. I would like to write a book as a tribute to them..
rsk
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