Health
In 1997, immediately following the Pygmalion production problems, Lloyd went to India. She was scheduled to make a film about a blind girl and she had an audience with the Dalai Lama. While waiting for the audience, she claimed that she was bitten by one of the temple dogs. The effects of the injury and having taken too many Lariam tablets resulted in her claiming that she had contracted rabies. This was later changed to Attention Deficit Disorder. She was "released" from the film, as the medication she was taking caused her to "have difficulty remembering her lines".
Lloyd's health challenges are now recognised as having been more complex than originally understood. Since 1992, she has been struggling to overcome depression and anxiety, in connection with which she spent two weeks under institutionalized psychiatric care at the Priory in the early 1990s. At various points, in addition to attention deficit disorder, she has been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome.
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