Mother of Five with a Brain Tumor Treated as Borderline Personality Disorder

MENTAL HEALTH CENTER'S PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS PROVEN WRONG BY BRAIN TUMOR
In 1996, mother-of-five Kathy Nisley of Mishawaka, Indiana, began to feel depressed following the birth of her twins (her fifth pregnancy). She went to Madison Center, a psychiatric facility, for treatment. From June 1996 to October 2003, she was labeled with "severe depression," then "bipolar," then "borderline personality disorder" and finally "post-traumatic stress disorder." Kathy was given psychotropic drugs in increasing doses and combinations that caused her to become psychotic. She ended up being hospitalized five times in a psychiatric ward. Her family witnessed her psychiatric drug-induced psychosis and self-mutilation. In November 2004, she experienced a grand mal seizure. A few days later, a neurosurgeon removed a tennis ball-sized meningioma (tumor) from her left frontal lobe. [pic1 , pic2] Her depression subsequently disappeared. Her surgeon estimated it to have been growing in her skull for between 10 and 15 years.

This article was originally published by the Citizens Commission for Human Rights International.

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