The unbearable likeness of being – Gillian tries hard to be the perfect 21st Century strong, independent woman but, in a terrible moment of clarity, felt the impossible pressures of modern life flood into her, suffocating her hopes, dreams, heart and spirit.

That morning, a trivial incident proved to be the last straw and Gillian really could feel ten distinct symptoms of distress, despair, agoraphobia, paranoia, isolation, disintegration, alienation, insanity suffocating her mental health defence mechanism as a cold, dense shroud and the sheer impossibility of plodding on through the chaotic insanity if her futile existence crushed her soul.