The Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI)
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- The Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) opened in 1840 . Originally named the Maine Insane Hospital and later the Augusta State Hospital, it closed in 2004 and was replaced on the same grounds with Riverview Psychiatric Hospital. This video gives us a brief glimpse into the evolution of mental health treatment from primarily institutional to community based care. You will have the privilege to witness some of the patients artwork on the walls of the tunnels. We end with the opening of Riverview Psychiatric Center, which is “a center for best practice, treatment, education and research, for individuals with serious, persistent mental illness, and co-occurring substance use disorders.” www.maine.gov/dhhs/riverview/....
We recommend that the showing of this documentary be accompanied with a discussion as it may bring emotions to the surface.
My aunt Wrendy Hayne was murdered here in 1996 by Harold Pulsifer. They were both patients here and despite multiple requests from my family, they were not separated or supervised. May all the patients rest in peace, and I'm glad that better and highly monitored alternatives are out there to support and protect the mental health needs of Maine's citizens.
and now hes out... love you cuz
For many many years the state covered up staff rapeing committed young females. They would force Abortions and do it on grounds in the tunnels. They actually found a hidden chamber with over 100 babies in jars in 1990 I was going to cony alternative on amhi grounds at the time and remember it well
May Wrendy, and your family, be at peace. Jan did so much advocacy in her memory with the fund established in her memory
I worked there and knew both of them. Her death happened just shortly after I left. I had many conversations with Harold.
I DID TWO ONE HALF YEARS OF HARD STATE HOSPITALS TIME ALMOST LOST MY LIFE THERE ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT I COULD TELL WHAT TIME IT WAS WHEN I HEARD A WINDOW CLICKED OPEN OR SHUT ON THAT NIGHT IT WAS A MOONLESS NIGHT BY THE NEXT DAY I SAW THREE HEADS STICKING OUT FROM UNDER ANOTHER BUILDING I GOT SCARED OF WHAT I SAW THE NIGHT BEFORE. THAT'S THE REAL TERROR HAD BEGUN THE STATE BOARD OF INVESTIGATION HAD THREE OF THEIR BEST OFFICERS WORKING UNDERCOVER I HAD A FELLOW INMATE LAY HER LIFE DOWN FOR ME SHE TOLD THEM YOU LET HER GO NOW THEY TOOK HER LIFE I JUST LAID THERE AND I WAS WEEPING FOR HER
I’m from U.K. .I remember similar hospitals ,around 1990 they closed two major institutions to move to community care . Some patients were lucky ,others were not . Many were put in bed and breakfast and spent their days wandering the streets as they were kicked out in the day . I worked in an old people’s home and some were put In theses type houses . We had one patient who was only 44 and stuck in a place with elderly people ,he hated it . Poor soul
Rooms underground used to reduce the stimuli for patients during difficult times....
In other words isolation.
You can ring bells all you like… it doesn’t explain away where these burials are. I find it hard to believe that there are no records at all. I just have a feeling , a bad feeling that much has been un said about this and for good reason. Your seriously telling me there’s no trace of THOUSANDS OF REMAINS? Maybe the boiler house needs to be looked at. The tunnel system although happily and joyously explained away , i for one don’t swallow that story. It was used for more than they say. There needs to be a full archeological search for those souls but that wont happen. They just admitted the legislator killed patient by not introducing air con. If they did that then, then god only knows what they did years ago . Something isn’t right …..
I worked at this place doing clean up down in the tunnels an we dump a wear house worth of birth an death records. Took over a month.
This happened at countless mental hospitals. Hundreds and thousands of Graves with just a number.
@@mariarodrguez4731uh huh.
Thank you for a more compassionate documentary than the one about the "insane asylum". It's important to use respectful language. The stigma about mental illness remains strong in Maine. I was at AMHI a few days in 1983 after a bad drug trip. Surreal and not helpful, just a place to put me as I came down I guess. Hard times then, but God has carried me through to the other side.
I would visit my oldest brother there and saw some things that should never have been allowed to happen.It was to easy to escape for one thing.My brother put on a painters uniform and was buzzed out of a locked unit,stole a taxi cab that was left running and drove to biddeford to try to murder me.He was captured by the police and brought back to the institute,and over the last decade they were open he was allowed to live in a group home on the property,where he eventually choked the group nurse out and was locked up again,then went to a group home on main st where he lived until 2 years ago and is now locked back away in a va hospital
If he went to the VA that must mean he is a veteran. Why would they put a Veteran in amhi and Not the VA in the 1st place ? Probably got a Government check and someone thought it was a good idea to hide him in the state system while they took his bennifits
YALL LOST 11,647 BODIES NO REMAINS FOUND EITHER AND YOU GUYS ARE COMFORTABLE SAYING THAT
my oldest brother was there for decades
I’m shaking my head now. Along with many others. 18:23 18:23 I’ll keep most of my comments for another time, but , seriously, to state in passing that Darby Penney “worked on” the discovery of the suitcases stored at Willard State Hospital in New York and the story of the life and death of the patient gravedigger there without informing who Darby was or that the information conveyed is the product of her and Peter Stasny’s years of research, advocacy, published book “The Lives They Left Behind” , and a curated exhibit “The Suitcase Project” of some of the suitcases and the research done from their contents to tell actual, non whitewashed, stories of real lives lost to segregated incarceration and deaths marked by only numbers on stakes later bulldozed over is to continue the disappearance of real people, their lives, their work to tell the actual facts of institutionalization and the brutality of “treatment modalities”.
I have just been evicted from my own home in a very abusive inheritance process where the system is trying to hide that I get nothing inside of Normal. So building up the lie that you are in normal but the inheritance that should be yours goes to someone else becomes a lot of symptoms and a lot of people without homes. and then help: In guse of mental hospitals
I like being outside,fresh air
I wish they used actual historic images from the hospital instead of just putting in random crap off the internet. It’s quite sad to see the same photos over and over again in every documentary.
Stephanie is magic. A Light. Bell Bottoms..🙏🏿🤣🙏🏻As She points to His Window...
Very informative and Educational Video.But HOW DID THOSE DOORS OPEN? at 16:30
I worked at AMHI UPPER MARQUART NORTH. OVER ACTIVE FEMALES
Years ago you let the people who need the most help out and now most of them are struggling living on the street. Maine mental health system is a failure.
Just drive through Augusta and you'll see for yourself.
Shame