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Anne’s family background was unstable. She was pregnant at 16 and again at 18. Her first baby died 4 days after birth. Her rapidly deteriorating mental state led to a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Then her remaining daughter was taken into care…
01/11/2009
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Philip was only 5 when his father died. Already a troubled child, he seemed to withdraw further into himself and his behaviour became increasingly bizarre and obsessive.
01/11/2009
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Leila, from an early age, was a child of extremes. One minute, sitting quietly threading wooden beads onto a string, the next running headlong through the house, overturning furniture, biting her own hand until it bled. Distressing for her; distressing for her parents.
01/11/2009
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Kyle had been ‘in the system’ for more than seven years. He was a typical ‘revolving door’ patient, in and out of psychiatric care acute wards, unable to sustain improvements once he was back in the community. He was first admitted as a schizophrenic with delusions, verbally hostile, violent towards his parents, a regular cannabis-user too.
01/11/2009
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Lee became involved with the wrong crowd at the age of 16. A predictable pattern followed: substance abuse led to psychosis and delusions. He stole from his family; they disowned him.
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