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From living hell TO FREEDOM

It was only three years ago that Ellen Tatam, 54, from Norfolk, was trapped in what she calls ‘hell on earth’. Battling dreadful, soul-destroying lows, and anxiety and depression that put her at risk of harm. Things had become so bad that when Ellen’s marriage broke down, her daughter Lizzy, now 18, chose to live with her father.

‘There was a lot of stigma around mental illness’

‘Lizzy was 13 when she moved in with her dad,’ Ellen explains. And while heartbroken, Ellen couldn’t blame her, as Ellen had been battling with undiagnosed

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