Central State Hospital; Lunatic Asylum; Milledgeville, Georgia

"Central State Hospital (CSH), located in Milledgeville, Georgia, is the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities. The CSH complex currently encompasses about 1,750 acres (7.1 km2).

The facility offers short-stay acute treatment for people with mental illness, residential units and habilitation programs for people with developmental disabilities, recovery programs that require a longer stay, and specialized skilled and ICF nursing centers. Some programs serve primarily the central-Georgia region while other programs serve counties throughout the state.

In the first decades of the 19th century there was a movement in several states to reform prisons, create public schools, and establish state-run hospitals for the mentally ill. In 1837, the Georgia State Legislature responded to a call from Governor Wilson Lumpkin, by passing a bill calling for the creation of a "State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum." Located in Milledgeville, then the state capital, the facility opened in 1842.

Under Dr. Thomas A. Green, 1845 to 1879, care of patients was based on the "institution as family". This modeled hospitals to resemble an extended family. Green ate with staff and patients daily and abolished chain and rope restraints.

The hospital population grew to nearly 12,000 in the 1960s. During the following decade, the population began to decrease due to the emphasis on deinstitutionalization, the addition of other public psychiatric (regional) hospitals throughout the state, the availability of psychotropic medications, an increase in community mental health programs, and many individuals moving to community living arrangements. During FY2004-FY2005, the hospital served more than 9,000 consumers (duplicats counted) - from nearly every Georgia county."
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• January 9

[mysaige001]

I would totally love to visit a mental asylum 1day....i think it would be such a great experience. I would love to see how some of the ppl in the mental asylum's react on a daily basis if anyone knows how to get in a real asylum please contact me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[UrbanExplorerMilbyy]

@mysaige001 I'd say just contact local ones to see about tours, but I bet a million bucks that would be unlikely. You could always try to intern somewhere, I guess. This is just me thinking.

[Dragonflykisses88]

Excellent work, this is wonderfully artistic and you captured the essence of CSH.

[UrbanExplorerMilbyy]

@Dragonflykisses88 Thank you very much, I appreciate it! :]

[bluescrowu]

I Love These photographs! The music is good also; reflective and a little dark-edgy and in respect for those who went before.. I shot a lot of black & White Medium format film This past Feb. It's an atrocity the way the State is letting these Gorgeous historic buildings ROT until the Slack ass State decides it's time to condemn them & push them over like they did the Native American Indian Mounds which preceded these buildings. Such is the way of Georgia Preservation. bluescrowu@gmail.com Trent

[UrbanExplorerMilbyy]

@bluescrowu Thanks a ton! Great band, I agree, have all of their work, Explosions in the Sky. That sounds pretty cool though, got a link?

[KeraAlanaTidwell]

@mysaige001 trust e i lived in milledgeville and its hunted!!!!!! and people literaly have been killed because of it and thats why they have warning signs and all

[MustangAmericana]

I'm not sure it would be such a "great" experience to be honest with you. I think it would be a depressing and frustrating experience. At best, it might be enlightening to realize all that we take for granted.

[mysaige001]

@grettagrids mo ive never thought of that

[grettagrids]

@mysaige001 ever thought of trying to volunteer in one? that way you can still see what it's like without being comitted. I believe the one in chattahoochee, FL gives tours and is still operating.

[mysaige001]

@grettagrids well i guess i will just have to see.

[mysaige001]

@grettagrids well i guess i will just have to see.

[grettagrids]

@mysaige001 not as much fun as you think.. I can tell you that.

[mysaige001]

@kmarzfg i just might do that :)

[kmarzfg]

@mysaige001 The best way is to volunteer at one : )