I almost ended my life at 25 because of the cocktail of anti-depressant drugs I had been put on from the age of 14. After ditching them, everything changed... and I even had my first orgasm

I almost ended my life at 25 because of the cocktail of anti-depressant drugs I had been put on from the age of 14. After ditching them, everything changed... and I even had my first orgasm

For 11 years, she'd been on 19 different drugs, including mood stabilisers, antidepressants and antipsychotics. The cocktail had begun when she was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 14.

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