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Jan was the most wonderful wife, and mother to Toby and Eleanor. We met at the London Hospital where I was a medical student and she was a nurse. She had already had a breakdown in her teens, provoked by her parents' separation, and suffered the horror of ECT. Her educational pathway interrupted by illness, she found her way to SRN training via dental nursing - but she would have been a fantastic doctor, with her keen intelligence, intuition and caring generous nature. She was proud of having Romany blood, and a strong psychic thread runs through her family. When well, talking to the dead, seeing spirits and "getting" people at a glance were blessings; when unwell, delusions, voices and being pursued by evil were a curse. Chronic insomnia was ever present, and she felt she was always watching out for everyone in the night hours. In spite of repeated lengthy hospital admissions, often sectioned, she always fought her way back to be with her beloved family and shine out love - but the illness always returned to wear her down, and at the end her heart gave up.

What more this amazing person could have achieved without the burden of schizophrenia can only be imagined. 

Help us fight this condition, and also help those who are afflicted  by supporting Rethink.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️ Tim

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