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Article: Facial fears prompt carpark plunge.
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2007
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A COMPANY director plunged to her death from a Leeds tower block after becoming convinced her face was caving in.
Mum-of-two Margaret Lister, 50, was diagnosed with dysmorphia disorder after becoming convinced her jaw was eroding away.
A Leeds inquest heard Mrs Lister, of Arran Drive, Garforth, had developed the disorder a few years before her death which makes sufferers become pre-occupied with a non-existent defect.
Her psychiatric problems, combined with severe alcoholism, led to a stay in the Becklin Centre a unit for mental health patients.
While there, Mrs Lister walked out to a nearby block of high rise flats where she plunged to ...