Woman loses schizophrenia misdiagnosis claim

A 46-year-old woman’s damages action over allegedly having been misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, after she complained of being sexually abused by a sibling, has been dismissed.

High Court President Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns found that the claim by the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is statute-barred.

She claimed she spent 11 years in a 13-year span effectively locked up at a Dublin psychiatric hospital following an alleged misdiagnosis by a doctor attached to the facility. The woman was first admitted in the early 1980s, when she was in her mid-teens.