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0 By Heather
I went to the GP 4 months after giving birth to my son and I scored really high on the depression tick chart. What I didn’t know yet was I had post natal psychosis. I also told him I didn’t feel safe anywhere, to which he gave me a scrap bit of paper with details of a counselling service. Around 12 hours later I put a 6 inch kitchen knife in to my neck. Thankfully my partner found me and called for help.
I was taken to hospital and I think I nearly died in the ambulance but I got there and had to be rushed to theatre to sort the wound in my neck. I was then transferred to ICU for a few days and then on to HDU. When I came round my head was telling me I had been attacked. I even told doctors nurses and police this.
My partner had been arrested and was not allowed to see me until they had a full statement from me. The mental health team let me go home as I was adamant I had been attacked (this was what my head was telling me).
When I got home I was closely monitored by the crisis team. I was also questioned by the police and still said to them I had been attacked but not by my partner to which I was then allowed to see him. When the memory of me putting the knife came back to me, I cuddled my partner in the same spot as where I actually was when I did it.
I began to spiral down into another psychotic episode from which I was sectioned in to a mother and baby unit with my son. It took me around a month to get fully better and back home but the mother and baby unit was absolutely brilliant.
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