Lizzy
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Four days after giving birth, 30-year-old Lizzy Berryman's postpartum psychosis forced her to be sectioned and taken from York to Derby while "soaked in urine" in a hospital car.
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"It's lit a fire in me to get the word out there that this is a problem and that it is so needed, because there are so many families torn apart," Lizzy said.
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"I was getting increasingly anxious and confused. I couldn't make a cup of tea or change Patrick's nappy," Lizzy, from York, said.
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Her family restrained her at home for two hours while waiting for an ambulance, with Lizzy sectioned under the Mental Health Act at York Hospital's emergency department.
From BBC
She said her family were told there were no available beds in Leeds - Yorkshire's only MBU - with Lizzy sent to the closest available unit able to treat psychosis and severe postnatal depression.
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