''A psychiatrist?'' Leslie asked skeptically.
''Yes, I strongly suggest that the patient gets counselling from a psychiatrist because of the long history of abuse that she was subjected to. The many scars on her body were self-inflicted which poses a high possibility of PTSD on the patient's mental health. The tendency of her attempting suicide after leaving the hospital is very high.
Usually, with victims of child and sexual abuse, at the early stage the perpetrators make victims to believe that it is their fault that everything is happening that way to them. they create a kind of thought which is imbedded in the victims' mind which makes them to feel that everything is their fault.
