M ental I llness C oncerns A ll	AB leaves school aged fourteen, expelled, with little or no attainment. Aged eighteen, her parents divorced. Aged nineteen, she presents at a family surgery and is prescribed anti-depressants. Depression is recorded thereafter, until aged twenty-one her parents report several weeks of bizarre behaviour. She was not sleeping and left the house at all hours of the night, had crying and laughing fits, moving furniture around without any reason, putting plates on top of the wardrobe, walking naked in front of her father, and not making sense when she conversed. She was admitted for observation and was treated for schizophrenia, there being a family history to support that. Subsequently she never stayed with any professional supervision, receiving depot depixol off and on for six years, but from time to time also anti-depressant drugs, and once lithium. Her unruly life style and her frequent loss of accommodation, and debt problems took her into petty crime. It was always believed she accessed and misused street drugs. She had periods in jail, under Probation, and often sought help in need from social services but never stayed in any therapeutic companionship or returned any confidences in those relationships. The final tragedy was that she stabbed and killed a boy friend for which she is sentenced to three years in prison !! . On to Comment Back to Link page Home Page         E-mail reaction is welcome mica@didgy.freeserve.co.uk