Mental Health?    

            These abandoned masterpieces in their day was at the fore front of psychological well being. All three of these complex structures listed started out with the best of intentions, but succumbed to overcrowding, budget cuts, and a long series of patient mistreatment lawsuits. Essex was destroyed, with perhaps the most horrifying of tales overall. When Essex was shut down, everything was left inside, including records, equipment, and many body parts, and other specimens as well. The Manors complex will soon meet its demise in the months to come. While Danvers? The jury is still out on that one, but it to is currently vacant in the hills of Massachusetts. 

Danvers had the distinction of being a pioneering endeavor in what became known as the "Kirk bride" system of moral psychological healing. It unfortunately descended into a whirlwind of heinous human experimentation. With such notable surgical methods as the frontal lobotomy, electro convulsive shock treatments, as well as hydro electric shock therapy, involving tanks of water similar to sensory depravation tanks, with the added bonus of pulsating electro shocks to the submerged patient.  This of course is just for starters.

The Manors, was labeled by prosecution attorneys as a "Medieval House Of Horrors". Where as the patients there were somewhat fortunate enough to have been spared much of the "Surgical" based experimentation, most of the patients there didn't realize they had bought into a large scam to drain large insurance policies. Many "Guests" of Anclote Manors, had purchased vacation plans, only to learn all to late that they were medicated and locked up until their policies expired. Then there were also many scandals pertaining to sexual misconduct amongst the women patients.

And Essex, overcrowding and abuse had run so rampant, the building was more immediately evacuated than closed down. The abandoned mountain asylum began as a Tuberculosis sanitarium, and ended in a barrage of civil violations, and lawsuits.  Much more will be presented of the Essex history soon. 

It should be realized how diabolical science can be in the name of "Health Care" and the pursuit of that common state of existence known as "Normality". There are thousands of asylums nationwide, most have the best interest of the patient at heart, but some end up coming across more of a front for sanctioned human experimentation under the umbrella category of "Modern Health"

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