Rachel Forde

Drink kind of came in and out of the equation.

I probably got drink to make myself look a little bit sociable.

Yes.

Yeah.

Do you know, and the few friends I did have, if I was going to them...

or they were coming to me, that would also be short-lived.

You know, I'd make up an excuse as to why I had to go away or they had to leave my house or, you know, because I wanted to use...

by myself first of all to be not judged I suppose from the amount of drugs that I was using and second of all so I didn't have to share Brenda if I'm being completely honest you know and psychosis came into my life and I kind of knew it was psychosis but I tried to convince myself that I was depressed and I had anxiety

I had a few things go on in my 20s that I suppose every person does, you know, like bad relationships, breakups, you know, things like this that I would blame the depression on.

You know, I was a single mom of two kids.

Now I had outstanding support from my family with my children.

But, you know, it's the pity part.

You know, the poor me.

I wish I could do this.

I wish I could do that.

And the only person standing in front of Rachel was Rachel.

And then, Rachel, for people who don't know what psychosis is, can you describe it?

Yeah, I suppose psychosis is a huge umbrella.

But what I was suffering from, thankfully, was drug induced psychosis.

Yeah.