A mum has 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 people 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 Catherine Tate.
Jade was trying for a baby at the time and had been watching TV show Vikings - 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, a full-time mum-of-one, from Farnborough, Hampshire, said: "It was scary.
I thought I was a royal Viking princess and pregnant. "I thought I had given birth. I was cradling my coat thinking it was my baby.
You can have psychosis - it doesn't define you." Jade had just turned 21 when she first had psychosis in January 2019. She had just changed her anti-depressant medication as she wanted to try for a baby.
She didn't realise anything was wrong, but her family started to notice her symptoms. Her dad Jim Rossiter, 62, a delive.
