Good production.....the horrid conditions people with mental illnesses had to endure in places like that...we've come along way in the way we view and deal with mental illness now, still we can do better...so many lost out on the streets. So glad they carved their names out there and not just numbers. Profound content.
Very interesting Charlie. Sad but that was probably the highest form of mental health care in the area at the time. Thank you for the tour my friend. I'm going to read about that place. That restored building is absolutely beautiful. I'm glad it's being put to such a good use! God bless our veterans!
My great grandfather is buried there. He witnessed a coworkers decapitation in 1914 while repairing trolley track in new haven. What would be a current diagnosis of PTSD was then unknown. He spent 30 years there at the behest of the State and my grandfather grew up without knowing his father. I obtained the case file and he was most certainly exploited for his work.
Hi friend. Still LOVE your intro. We had a facility like this in South Carolina. Just about everything on the campus has been demolished and new development has sprouted. How sad that all those people ended up there as numbers rather than with their families. Glad the at least have names in the directory now.
Oh, WOW! So sad. Yes, back in the day they tried some really scary things in the name of a cure for the mentally challenged or what they liked to loosely call, the insane. Sometimes if a family didn't like what someone was doing, they just had them labeled insane and taken away to an asylum like this one. Most lived out their lives there and were basically forgotten. The cemetery, in its vastness, is a testament to that. Sad.
Why is this place still open? After a bad divorce I was referred there by another DMHAS facility called Harbor health in Branford Connecticut which is now called BH healthcare. I am on Medicare and Medicaid and on disability which is why I suppose I was referred there. It’s the kind of place that people that are on Medicare and Medicaid end up bad I guess because it’s basically a Medicare Medicaid mill. I was moving to Middletown so social worker Melanie Camerato at BH healthcare said that that’s where I should go for my outpatient therapy. While I was at BH Healthcare I saw an old psychiatrist named Dr. Karl Otto Liebmann Who has since passed away and lived in a $1.5 million mansion in Branford. He should have retired because he obviously did not know what he was doing and had me on a drug that nobody even uses anymore because it is so extremely toxic. I suppose he just wanted to make some money and work at a place which was near his home. It was convenient for him I suppose. I don’t think he needed the money anyway. But I was referred to River Valley services which is the outpatient facility at Connecticut Valley Hospital. I went through a number of different social workers and psychiatrists there. The first psychiatrist was Dr. Mahalingiah. He completely ignored all the toxicity symptoms I was having from the drugs that I was on. By the time I had to run away from River Valley services they told me they had misdiagnosed me anyway. So all the drugs they had me on were completely contraindicated. That’s how incompetent and dangerous this place is.When I complained about toxicity symptoms such as a tremor I was developing , Dr. Halevoor Mahalingiah just gave me another drug for it. Instead of realizing that I was showing significant toxicity symptoms.Then he went to work at the VA. So I started seeing another psychiatrist there named Sebastian Mozzicato. . For the remainder of the four plus years that I was there As an outpatient, he put me on more drugs and completely ignored my toxicity symptoms which were becoming more and more severe. I ended up having to have my parathyroid glands removed my gallbladder and have permanent neurological damage to this day. When I complained about what was going on there they sent armed police to my door and my young son was with me on a Saturday morning. He was terrified. Had also complained to Dr. Sebastian Mozzicato the psychiatrist there that my son was being abused by his stepfather and even though he was a mandated reporter he refused to do anything about it. As did Vitaliy Troyakov . I once told Vitaliy Troyakov that the drugs they were giving me were making me feel suicidal and I had pressed a knife into my chest at home. He completely ignored it and didn’t even report it. I also told him that I thought I had only seen him for two weeks and it turned out I had been seeing him for two months. I later learned that that’s a sign of brain damage it’s called dyschronometria where you have a completely distorted sense of time. I also told him I would get off at highway exits when I was driving and not recognize where I was even though they were very familiar. These were all signs of brain damage that were occurring because of the drug “cocktail” they had me on and he didn’t tell anybody. Completely ignored it. To save his own job I suppose. But yeah, after I started complaining they sent the cops to my door one day. Two armed Middletown police officers with one of their social workers. It was clearly an attempt to shut me up and stop me from complaining. Just like they threaten to the staff member who worked at the Whiting forensic Institute which is part of Connecticut Valley hospital after he blew the whistle on patient abuse that was going on there. That’s what these people do. They threaten you. They sent police to your door. The staff member who blew the whistle on what was going on at Whiting Forensic Institute ended up committing suicide because of what they did to him.They did this to shut me up because I started complaining about some of the things that were going on there. I was also seeing a few social workers there including Kylene Zakeski who is responsible for calling the police on me. Jonathan Lusterbourghs Was the social worker who came with the police who were armed. I had seen him before I saw Kylene Zaleski. While I was seeing Dr. Mozzicato the psychiatrist, I was also seeing a psychologist named Vitaliy Troyakov. A number of occasions it look like he was going to burst into tears while I was in my sessions with him. I now realize it was because he saw how they were destroying me with the drugs but he refused to do anything. Connecticut Valley Hospital has a history of destroying whistle blowers. There was a staff member at Whiting forensic Institute which is part of their facility who was fired after he blew the whistle on incredible patient abuse that was going on there which resulted in staff members being arrested. So Vitaly Troy coffee obviously did not want to blow the whistle. When I once told him I wanted to complaint about what was going on he said do you think it’s going to do any good? I tried to speak to the patient liaison at one point and she can order me. Vitale try your coffee was not even qualified to be there he was just starting out as a Psychologist and obviously did not know what he was doing. But he should have notified somebody of what he saw going on with me when I started complaining to him about the symptoms that I was having of brain damage literally. From the drugs from all the drugs they had me on. There is a woman there right now named Carol Levesque who has been given shock treatment over 500 times since 2016. The last I heard Connecticut legal rights project was trying to get them to stop doing it to her. But Connecticut legal rights project would not help me. They said my case was too complicated. What I want to know is why is this hell hole still open? I used to live in New York City and they had hospitals in upstate New York like Creedmor and Rockland State that were shut down in the learly 70s they were doing stuff like this. People would die in those places and I thought how terrible is that. I never dreamed that I would end up being destroyed as an outpatient in Connecticut Valley hospitals River Valley Services Complaints I can’t believe what a corrupt facility this is. Why isn’t anybody doing anything about this?But at least they shut those facilities in NY State down. But Connecticut seems to be stuck in a time warp and still allows places like this to exist.Why is Connecticut still allowing these hellholes to exist? Is it really that corrupt state? And when you try to complain they send our police to your door. What kind of a state is Connecticut anyway? Sorry if any of this is repetitive I’m voice dictating and have had to go back and re-added things and I probably have repeated a few things. Probably because of all the damage that was done to my brain because of the drugs they gave me as well. The long and short of it is that as this video shows this place has a horrible history but it still is doing these incredibly cruel things to people. And it should be shut down. I have nothing to lose anymore if anybody knows me from this post. They destroyed my life already anyway. I have nothing more to fear. The Connecticut Department of mental health and addiction services as a corrupt organization and the state of Connecticut is obviously very corrupt if he refuses to do anything about what’s going on at this place. What’s STILL going on at this place. I really don’t care anymore. Like I said, they try to intimidate me they sent police to my door and threatened me. I’m not afraid of these people anymore. I have nothing to lose. Something needs to be done. Thank you for this video. All those people who died with those numbered gravestones. They tortured those people. And that’s the truth. I know that.
In your reference to demolishing old buildings they use a technique called demolition by neglect. Due to asbestos and other hazardous materials the cost would be too much to actually demolish the buildings. Once a building has been emptied out the area surrounding the building is fenced off and then nature takes its course.
I watched a document on how people like me used to be treated it's terrifying I've had bad treatment in today's mental hospitals in two of them. I can't imagine what they would have done to me back when
Most all of the buildings are connected by underground tunnels.
That's a lot of grave stones and a lot of sad stories. Thanks for the tour and history lesson, really eye opening. Cheers brother.
It was opened in 1867 or 68. It was originally established for Civil War veterans suffering from Shell Shock.
Good production.....the horrid conditions people with mental illnesses had to endure in places like that...we've come along way in the way we view and deal with mental illness now, still we can do better...so many lost out on the streets. So glad they carved their names out there and not just numbers. Profound content.
Very interesting Charlie. Sad but that was probably the highest form of mental health care in the area at the time. Thank you for the tour my friend. I'm going to read about that place.
That restored building is absolutely beautiful. I'm glad it's being put to such a good use! God bless our veterans!
There was another building but they tore it down... It had the porches on the side of the building that were all caged in... It was an Eerie site..
My great grandfather is buried there. He witnessed a coworkers decapitation in 1914 while repairing trolley track in new haven. What would be a current diagnosis of PTSD was then unknown. He spent 30 years there at the behest of the State and my grandfather grew up without knowing his father. I obtained the case file and he was most certainly exploited for his work.
God bless... Its amazing how some people were treated because of lack of knowledge of diagnoses back then.. I sure pray for his peace.. Thank you..
Oh wow!!! How sad.❤❤❤
Wow, that is a lot of graves... So very sad. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing my friend 🤙🏼 - Ray
Another great video, thank you for sharing
Thanks appreciate it...
My husband is a nurse there. Thankfully he’s retiring soon, it’s a tough place to work.
I'm at whitting forensic hospital.
Hi friend. Still LOVE your intro. We had a facility like this in South Carolina. Just about everything on the campus has been demolished and new development has sprouted. How sad that all those people ended up there as numbers rather than with their families. Glad the at least have names in the directory now.
Great use for that old building... Housing for the veterans!
Most of the old buildings are filled with asbestos so they could never be used again. It would be a complete Financial nightmare
Check out Valley View cafe on the grounds of CVH for breakfast or lunch.
Absolutely...Been there.. It closed down for awhile but had reopened... Thanks..
Oh, WOW! So sad. Yes, back in the day they tried some really scary things in the name of a cure for the mentally challenged or what they liked to loosely call, the insane. Sometimes if a family didn't like what someone was doing, they just had them labeled insane and taken away to an asylum like this one. Most lived out their lives there and were basically forgotten. The cemetery, in its vastness, is a testament to that. Sad.
You are absolutely right... Town drunks used to be dropped off and experimented on...
That’s awful.
Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for coming by and watching...
Why is this place still open? After a bad divorce I was referred there by another DMHAS facility called Harbor health in Branford Connecticut which is now called BH healthcare. I am on Medicare and Medicaid and on disability which is why I suppose I was referred there. It’s the kind of place that people that are on Medicare and Medicaid end up bad I guess because it’s basically a Medicare Medicaid mill. I was moving to Middletown so social worker Melanie Camerato at BH healthcare said that that’s where I should go for my outpatient therapy. While I was at BH Healthcare I saw an old psychiatrist named Dr. Karl Otto Liebmann Who has since passed away and lived in a $1.5 million mansion in Branford. He should have retired because he obviously did not know what he was doing and had me on a drug that nobody even uses anymore because it is so extremely toxic. I suppose he just wanted to make some money and work at a place which was near his home. It was convenient for him I suppose. I don’t think he needed the money anyway. But I was referred to River Valley services which is the outpatient facility at Connecticut Valley Hospital. I went through a number of different social workers and psychiatrists there. The first psychiatrist was Dr. Mahalingiah. He completely ignored all the toxicity symptoms I was having from the drugs that I was on. By the time I had to run away from River Valley services they told me they had misdiagnosed me anyway. So all the drugs they had me on were completely contraindicated. That’s how incompetent and dangerous this place is.When I complained about toxicity symptoms such as a tremor I was developing , Dr. Halevoor Mahalingiah just gave me another drug for it. Instead of realizing that I was showing significant toxicity symptoms.Then he went to work at the VA. So I started seeing another psychiatrist there named Sebastian Mozzicato. . For the remainder of the four plus years that I was there As an outpatient, he put me on more drugs and completely ignored my toxicity symptoms which were becoming more and more severe. I ended up having to have my parathyroid glands removed my gallbladder and have permanent neurological damage to this day. When I complained about what was going on there they sent armed police to my door and my young son was with me on a Saturday morning. He was terrified. Had also complained to Dr. Sebastian Mozzicato the psychiatrist there that my son was being abused by his stepfather and even though he was a mandated reporter he refused to do anything about it. As did Vitaliy Troyakov . I once told Vitaliy Troyakov that the drugs they were giving me were making me feel suicidal and I had pressed a knife into my chest at home. He completely ignored it and didn’t even report it. I also told him that I thought I had only seen him for two weeks and it turned out I had been seeing him for two months. I later learned that that’s a sign of brain damage it’s called dyschronometria where you have a completely distorted sense of time. I also told him I would get off at highway exits when I was driving and not recognize where I was even though they were very familiar. These were all signs of brain damage that were occurring because of the drug “cocktail” they had me on and he didn’t tell anybody. Completely ignored it. To save his own job I suppose. But yeah, after I started complaining they sent the cops to my door one day. Two armed Middletown police officers with one of their social workers. It was clearly an attempt to shut me up and stop me from complaining. Just like they threaten to the staff member who worked at the Whiting forensic Institute which is part of Connecticut Valley hospital after he blew the whistle on patient abuse that was going on there. That’s what these people do. They threaten you. They sent police to your door. The staff member who blew the whistle on what was going on at Whiting Forensic Institute ended up committing suicide because of what they did to him.They did this to shut me up because I started complaining about some of the things that were going on there. I was also seeing a few social workers there including Kylene Zakeski who is responsible for calling the police on me. Jonathan Lusterbourghs Was the social worker who came with the police who were armed. I had seen him before I saw Kylene Zaleski. While I was seeing Dr. Mozzicato the psychiatrist, I was also seeing a psychologist named Vitaliy Troyakov. A number of occasions it look like he was going to burst into tears while I was in my sessions with him. I now realize it was because he saw how they were destroying me with the drugs but he refused to do anything. Connecticut Valley Hospital has a history of destroying whistle blowers. There was a staff member at Whiting forensic Institute which is part of their facility who was fired after he blew the whistle on incredible patient abuse that was going on there which resulted in staff members being arrested. So Vitaly Troy coffee obviously did not want to blow the whistle. When I once told him I wanted to complaint about what was going on he said do you think it’s going to do any good? I tried to speak to the patient liaison at one point and she can order me. Vitale try your coffee was not even qualified to be there he was just starting out as a Psychologist and obviously did not know what he was doing. But he should have notified somebody of what he saw going on with me when I started complaining to him about the symptoms that I was having of brain damage literally. From the drugs from all the drugs they had me on. There is a woman there right now named Carol Levesque who has been given shock treatment over 500 times since 2016. The last I heard Connecticut legal rights project was trying to get them to stop doing it to her. But Connecticut legal rights project would not help me. They said my case was too complicated. What I want to know is why is this hell hole still open? I used to live in New York City and they had hospitals in upstate New York like Creedmor and Rockland State that were shut down in the learly 70s they were doing stuff like this. People would die in those places and I thought how terrible is that. I never dreamed that I would end up being destroyed as an outpatient in Connecticut Valley hospitals River Valley Services Complaints I can’t believe what a corrupt facility this is. Why isn’t anybody doing anything about this?But at least they shut those facilities in NY State down. But Connecticut seems to be stuck in a time warp and still allows places like this to exist.Why is Connecticut still allowing these hellholes to exist? Is it really that corrupt state? And when you try to complain they send our police to your door. What kind of a state is Connecticut anyway? Sorry if any of this is repetitive I’m voice dictating and have had to go back and re-added things and I probably have repeated a few things. Probably because of all the damage that was done to my brain because of the drugs they gave me as well. The long and short of it is that as this video shows this place has a horrible history but it still is doing these incredibly cruel things to people. And it should be shut down. I have nothing to lose anymore if anybody knows me from this post. They destroyed my life already anyway. I have nothing more to fear. The Connecticut Department of mental health and addiction services as a corrupt organization and the state of Connecticut is obviously very corrupt if he refuses to do anything about what’s going on at this place. What’s STILL going on at this place. I really don’t care anymore. Like I said, they try to intimidate me they sent police to my door and threatened me. I’m not afraid of these people anymore. I have nothing to lose. Something needs to be done. Thank you for this video. All those people who died with those numbered gravestones. They tortured those people. And that’s the truth. I know that.
Sorry to hear about some of that stuff Mark.. I agree... These old places have never treated their clients well.. I hope the best for you..
In your reference to demolishing old buildings they use a technique called demolition by neglect. Due to asbestos and other hazardous materials the cost would be too much to actually demolish the buildings.
Once a building has been emptied out the area surrounding the building is fenced off and then nature takes its course.
Sad the kind of lives people had there. Hope they are resting in peace
Me to bro... They deserve peace.
Very good rock love you left there
Wow scary place! That is a lot of graves. I wouldn't want to be here at night.
I lived in Middletown and used to walk through the cemetery quite a bit at night. It was very peaceful.
Yes, God bless them all
I watched a document on how people like me used to be treated it's terrifying
I've had bad treatment in today's mental hospitals in two of them. I can't imagine what they would have done to me back when
Not good at all how some are treated... Our society needs to do better...
Good for them. I hope they fix them all
Im going to visit this location tomorrow morning.
Wow!😥
There is a grave there whose number correlates with Lizzie Borden.
May God rest their souls
At least they saved the building
What the what it's m
What we try to for get
Can people walk around the property?
Yes you can... Can't go in the old buildings though...