"Much of the staff was drafted during World War II and replaced with nonqualified workers," Sara Fisher, a junior studying psychology at Marymount, said. "Beds were placed in day rooms; infections spread, and there was just one psychologist to care for each 300 patients."
Rockland State Hospital - Asylum Projects
…I resorted to sleeping in the dayroom on the sofa because another patient had smeared her feces all over the wall in her room. I had been moved to that room but the odor was so bad I couldn’t sleep in there and I just didn’t feel comfortable in that room. It seemed eerie to me and too vulnerable to intrusions.
