Well, truth be told I'm not the biggest Beatles fan (*dodges tomatoes*), but I do know that this song is based on a true story...and this is also at the time from when they were experimenting in more "abstract" imagery (if I have to explain "Yellow Submarine", I am logging off and not coming back), so I'm not sure it "means" anything literally.
You can look at it a couple of ways, though: it describes a young girl who tried to take on too much, too soon in a big city and eventually ended up regressing ("sucking her thumb") and becoming more and more withdrawn from the outside world ("wanders by the banks of her own lagoon"--I should note that "memory lagoon" is not a phrase in English like it is in Spanish and "gap" would probably be the best translation for "laguna" in this sense). That's the interpretation I put to it when I read it. Of course a lot of drugs were involved and I could see these lines being written with a wink and a nudge, but my gut feeling is still that it's a rich girl who wasn't taught how to survive on her own...feel free to disagree...
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