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(RavenHUWolf via Twitter)
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Johannesburg - Durban writer and psychologist Zainub Priya Dala on Sunday said she wants to get out of the psychiatric ward she checked herself in to, as people were “pointing and whispering”.

“Due to very strong meds and the people pointing and whispering I told the nurses to call my doctor and discharge me," she tweeted on her @ZPDala account on Sunday.

She said she felt she would be safer at home as word had spread that she was in the hospital and journalists were constantly calling her. The doctor who could authorise her discharge was however on leave.

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