“My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.”
— Sue Whitaker
“I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.”
— Sue Whitaker
“I thought doctors were supposed to make you better not worse!”
— Sue Whitaker
“I was trying to work out who I was.”
— Sue Whitaker
“I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone”
— Sue Whitaker
“I didn’t feel very lucky. Why me, I kept asking myself. Why had this happened to me?”
— Sue Whitaker
“I would need an awful lot of willpower to fight my way through the ups and downs of the road to recovery, and there might be times when I may feel a bit down and depressed, but there would be counsellors that I could talk to about how I was feeling.”
— Sue Whitaker
“I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would they put me in a padded cell and feed me through a hatch door? Would I end up in one of those places that you hear about, where people go in but never come out?”
— Sue Whitaker