Mother-of-one, 26, switched antidepressants...
and ended up with such severe psychosis she thought she was a Viking princess READ MORE: How patients taking antidepressants get hooked on them for life By Chris Pollard Published: 15:41, 21 June 2024 | Updated: 15:58, 21 June 2024 e-mail 7 View comments A mother-of-one developed severe psychosis that made her think she was a Viking princess and pregnant with a royal baby after doctors switched her antidepressant medication. Jade Rossiter, 26, started to suffer vivid dreams and then began to act as if she were characters she had seen on TV. Jade, from Farnborough, Hampshire, said: ‘I was having really vivid dreams.
My arm would go up and bang against the wall. That would wake me up. ‘I'd act out as Danny Dyer or Katherine Tate.
I'd act how they were on screen.’ Jade Rossiter suffered severe psychosis after changing antidepressants Jade thought she was a Viking princess after watching the TV show Vikings (Pictured: Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha in Vikings) Jade, who was trying for a baby at the time, had also been watching TV show Vikings at the time. She said: ‘It was scary.
I thought I was a royal Viking princess and pregnant. ‘At some point I thought I had given birth. I was cradling my coat thinking it was my baby.
‘I didn't think there was anything wrong with me at the time.’ Jade had recently changed her anti-depressant medication and believes that is what triggered the psychosis. While she didn't realise anythi.
