Denise Welch recently celebrated going a year without an “episode”. “It came up on a Facebook memory on September 28 that it had been a year.That’s a long time for me.The longest I’ve gone is 18 months, but over the years I get episodes every few months.
It can come on out of nowhere,” she tells OK! Denise was first diagnosed with depression in 1989 after giving birth to her first son Matt.The Loose Women star, who quit alcohol in 2012 with her husband Lincoln Townley, has been working with Mental Health First Aid England and sharing her experiences with others. “There is still ignorance around this subject and it’s really helpful listening to people who have first-hand experience of it,” she says.
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