It was a very busy day and one staff was on emergency leave.

As all was in the waiting area for their turn, suddenly a woman in blue top rushed through the staff door that wasn’t closed properly, and ran all the way, through the treatment room, to doctor’s consultation room. The doctor was seeing other patients there.

We don’t know what she was going to do to the doctor, as we, including the doctor who was in shock, had already grabbed her hands before she did anything. We pulled her back to the treatment room. She was undeniably strong, despite all four of us were grabbing her, and one was preparing the injection. She scratched our hands, kicked our legs, screaming, resisting.

She has defaulted with medicine since 2010. Recent few weeks she has become unwell again, but the husband was too busy with work so he didn’t bring her here immediately and let her deteriorate. She started to see a psychiatrist from the year of 2005, being diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. With very regular injections and medication she’d got much better. Then a second breakdown in 2010, when she moved to a low-cost flat with Malay and foreign neighbours, whom she was so paranoid with. Later in the year she stopped taking medications, telling our staff that she feels much better without medication.

When we pressed her on the bed, she was shouting, saying her Malay neighbours were spreading her personal details and photos on youtube and other social medias. We could hear her saying 8TV, radios, youtube… the Malay neighbours were spying on her, peeping her, going through her rubbish, taking her pictures and videos then spreading them online.

The husband said she cannot get along with her Malay neighbours, she actually went to argue with her neighbours due to her delusions.

She came from a big family, being the youngest of her 10 siblings. She has two girls and one boy with her husband.

With medication and injection she has got much better now. Though relapses are likely to happen if she is not going to come back for follow ups and maintain with her medications.