I was 37 when I becamepsychotic. I was hospitalised for six months, sectioned and underwent six treatments ofelectroconvulsive therapy(ECT). I‘d grown up in a in a dysfunctional family and I married an abusive man. I found the courage to leave the marriage and after a breakdown lasting a few weeks I returned to work. With hindsight, bottling up my emotions was wrong. In time my levels ofanxietyrocketed and I became agitated, leading to psychosis. I was living alone and it was a week before anyone realised. |
