A mum told how her severe psychosis made her think she was a pregnant Viking princess and strangers were hacking her phone.
Jade Rossiter, 26, had just changed anti-depressant medication when she started to get vivid dreams.
Her visions quickly developed into psychosis - where you see or hear things that are not there or believe things that are not true - and she would act out as characters she had seen on TV such as Danny Dyer and Katherine Tate.
Jade was trying for a baby at the time and had been watching TV show Vikings and her psychosis had her convinced she was a Viking princess and pregnant.
She was sectioned for four months and diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Jade recovered but last year her psychosis returned after she came off her bipolar medication.
She became convinced people were hacking her phone, listening to her calls and she would be the next Queen of England.
Jade spent another two months in hospital but has since recovered.
Jade Rossiter, 26, had just changed anti-depressant medication when she started to get vivid dreams.
Her visions quickly developed into psychosis - where you see or hear things that are not there or believe things that are not true - and she would act out as characters she had seen on TV such as Danny Dyer and Katherine Tate.
Jade was trying for a baby at the time and had been watching TV show Vikings and her psychosis had her convinced she was a Viking princess and pregnant.
She was sectioned for four months and diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Jade recovered but last year her psychosis returned after she came off her bipolar medication.
She became convinced people were hacking her phone, listening to her calls and she would be the next Queen of England.
Jade spent another two months in hospital but has since recovered.
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00:00So, a lot of my delusions, I didn't know why I had those delusions, but being the Queen
00:15of England, the next Queen of England, I don't know why, but with the Viking princess and
00:22being pregnant with a royal Viking baby, that I think was because I was watching a lot of
00:30the seasoned Vikings and I think I just absorbed a lot of what was going on in that and come
00:38to my own sort of conclusion in my psychosis.
00:49The reason that I had a psychosis was because a psychiatrist who was new to me at the time
00:55told me that I didn't have bipolar and it was more ADHD and autism and that I shouldn't
01:01be on medication basically, when in actual fact I do need medication.
01:07So yeah, we ended up with a psychosis and I was in hospital for two months, maybe three months.