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Corrie's Helen Flanagan on her psychotic episode: 'I was seeing things, it was really scary'


EXCLUSIVE: Coronation Street's Helen Flanagan opens up to OK! about her psychosis diagnosis which caused her to "see things" and pull out of her "dream job" at the final moment

in an exclusive chat, after a difficult Christmas Day without her kids - Matilda, eight, Delilah, five, and three-year-old Charlie - who were with their dad, her ex Scott Sinclair. The effects of the medicine, on top of trying to deal with long-buried feelings about her traumatic split from her partner of 13 years, Scott Sinclair, was too much for Helen's mental health and she spiralled. Magazine / Chelsea White)The mental health charity Mind describes psychosis as "when you perceive or interpret reality in a very different way from people around you”, with common symptoms including disorganised thinking, delusions, and speech and hallucinations.

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