A woman who "felt like she was having a heart attack" is using her struggles to help ensure "lives are not taken too soon".
Like many across the UK Ashley Jones and her partner Terri-Ann Carnall, from Speke, felt their mental health decline during the covid lockdown as they became extremely anxious and depressed. Ashley said she was "scared to go out" and felt "secluded" from her loved ones.
When the panic attacks started, Ashley found herself in A&E, feeling like she was "having a heart attack" but felt she wasn't being taken seriously. She told the ECHO: "I thought I was a stronger person, it was hard to admit. I started to seclude myself from everyone, I became very scared to go out the house, in turn staying in over a long period of time it affected me a lot."
