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WENN LAWSON

The doctor asked me a couple of questions – he asked me if I heard voices, which seemed like a really silly question because as far as I was concerned voices are actually designed to be heard and most of us, unless we are deaf, hear voices, so I said ‘yes’. He said ‘what do these voices say to you?’ and I said ‘well it depends on whose voice it is’. He said ‘do you hear more than one?’, and I said ‘yes I hear many’. He then asked me if I see things, which also was a strange question because I’m not blind, although I only have sight in one eye, so I said ‘yes I do see things’. So he concluded I lived detached from reality, and that I had auditory and visual hallucinations, which equates to being schizophrenic, so he said to my parents that their daughter was mentally ill, that she was schizophrenic, would need anti-psychotic medication, and in fact they put me into a psychiatric hospital.