A woman says she felt "abandoned" after both her parents sadly died within a year and five months of each other. Katie Irvine, 28, says her "bubbly mum", Teresa, 50, secretly suffering with a mental health battle - which left her "blindsided" when she ended her own life.
Teresa, a community fundraiser, was diagnosed with bipolar when she was 44, and depression when she was in her early twenties - but hid it from Katie under a "happy" persona.
Katie says that she spent most of her life worrying that something "bad" would happen and her world came crashing down when police showed up at her work on March 15, 2019, to break the tragic news of her mum's death.
However, grief continued to follow Katie. Just a year and five months after her mother's death, her father, Gary Irvine, also passed away.
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