A psychiatric patient who has been refusing food and fluids in recent weeks may be force fed if doctors consider that is necessary and appropriate, the president of the High Court has directed. The woman, in her 40s, suffers from a number of psychiatric conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, arising from being sexually abused as a child. While she had told treating doctors she did not want to die, she also believed death was the only way she could get certain images out of her mind,...
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