A 'really soft, loving man' took his own life after struggling to cope with the death of his mother.
John James Beardsworth, 31, known as Peter, was found by a support worker dead in his flat with his beloved companion Staffordshire bull terrier 'Sash.'
Peter's family have said he had previously battled drug and alcohol addiction before his death on on September 20, 2021, the MEN reports.
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Speaking to the MEN, his sister Heather Beardsworth, 41, said addiction probably caused the schizoaffective disorder which led to him being housed in supported accommodation in Wigan.
She said: "It was the drugs that caused his mental health problems.
"But our mum's death five years previously also hit him very hard. Because he used to drink a lot, he never really grieved for our mum.
"He was a really soft, loving man.
"He would always tell people when he loved them. He wasn't shy about expressing his emotions."
Sash, Peter's dog, is now being looked over by relatives.
On September 20, last year a support worker at the Brookfield flats complex in Scot Lane, Joanne Barlow, went to check on him but found him in the bathroom.
Brookfield manager Annette Degiorgio then performed CPR on Peter, but he was unresponsive.
On Monday (March 7), a statement read out to an inquest at Bolton Coroners' Court from Peter's sister Vanessa Butterworth and verified by Heather, revealed that he had problems with alcohol addiction but had received help in 2017 and managed to get 'successfully sober'.
But in 2020 he spent five months at a Christian rehabilitation centre in Birmingham and came back from there 'talking about Jesus a lot and not making a lot of sense'.
Assistant coroner for Manchester West Stephen Teesdale heard that Peter, a warehouse operative, had been badly affected by the death of his mother.
Social services intervened and put him up in supported accommodation at Brookfield.
But in Christmas 2020 his mental state started to deteriorate and the inquest heard how he would frequently stop taking his anti-psychotic medication.
In the February before his death he went to the accident and emergency department at the Royal Albert Edward Hospital in Wigan, threatening to harm himself.
In a narrative conclusion, Mr Teesdale recorded a narrative conclusion and found that Peter 'suffered from schizoaffective disorder but that his intentions as the time remain unclear'.
