Poor Sheila.The more I hear about her illness,,the more it takes me back to my days of working in an " asylum ",as it was known then. Those poor women,,most of them young,had such tortured minds,it was heartbreaking,,and looking back over the years,it probably only began as a hormonal imbalance,,but those young women were " insane " and the drastic measures such as an injection of Paraldehyde which more or less knocked the poor souls cold. I remember being upset when this drug was first administered because I thought it was cruel,and the ward sister telling me to " pull myself together,that it had to be done ". Haloperidol is an old drug too,given intravenously,,and can't be given without a patients permission unless it comes under the Mental Health Act,then it doesn't become their own choice.
I often wonder if Sheila was ever sectioned ? Only her medical notes would supply such information.
