 " For June Bolan , the alarm bells began to sound only when Syd kept his girlfriend under lock and key for three days , occasionally shoving a ration of biscuits under the door . " A claim of cruelty against Barrett committed by the groupies and hangers @-@ on who frequented his apartment during this period was described by writer and critic Jonathan Meades . " I went [ to Barrett 's flat ] to see Harry and there was this terrible noise . It sounded like heating pipes shaking . I said , ' What 's up ? ' and he sort of giggled and said , ' That 's Syd having a bad trip . We put him in the linen cupboard ' " . Storm Thorgerson responded to this claim by stating " I do not remember locking Syd up in a cupboard . It sounds to me like pure fantasy , like Jonathan Meades was on dope himself . " Other friends assert that Barrett 's infamous flatmates , " Mad Jock " and " Mad Sue , " believed that acid held all the answers and thought of Barrett as a genius or " god , " and were spiking his morning coffee with LSD every day without his knowledge , leaving him in a never @-@ ending trip . He was later rescued from that flat by friends and moved elsewhere , but his erratic behavior continued . Watkinson and Anderson included quotes from a story told to them by Thorgerson that underscored how volatile Barrett could be . " On one occasion , I had to pull him off Lindsay ( Barrett 's girlfriend at the time ) because he was beating her over the head with a mandolin " . On one occasion , Barrett threw a woman called Gilly across the room , because she refused to go to Gilmour 's house . These strange behaviors contradicted Barrett 's usually gentle nature . According to Gilmour in an interview with Nick Kent , the other members of Pink Floyd approached psychiatrist R. D. Laing with the ' Barrett problem ' . After hearing a tape of a Barrett conversation , Laing declared him " incurable " . 
