I'd like my contribution to 1001 Stories to be bigger than me.

My daughter Z was born in 1991. I had extreme puerperal psychosis. Against my wishes I was given 12 cycles of ECT under section. I couldn't draw after that.

I spent 4 years in and out of Highroyds Hospital in Menston. That was the beginning of my healing journey and me studying Shiatsu and Reiki. After getting off Lithium and a host of horrible psychotropic medication, I taught myself to draw again.

It will help others. Psychiatry is not an exact science. Many never recover from ECT, you have to relearn everything. My grandmother and auntie had ECT without a sedative. Stina's grandmother had a Lobotomy!!! All pioneered at Highroyds.

My dear friend Stina was first sectioned as a teen. Her brother and sister in law live in Oakwood. Stina is a very interesting woman. An amazing friend to me.

I have books on Highroyds and Mental asylum's in Leeds. There are over 2000 burials at Highroyds of old inmates. I went there recently with Z. It's hilarious that people are paying big bucks to live in asylum buildings. The 3 mile corridor still in situ, which kind of cracks me up. You couldn't pay me to live there. It was a fully functioning village with its own mortuary.

Yeah I am proud of being a survivor and finding a way through a dismal mess. Z was the biggest loser. I didn't start to truly mother her until she was 4. So there are things we can never catch up on.