Right now, 14-year-old Rose Grady no longer recognises her family.

In the depths of lockdown, the teenager suffered a severe mental breakdown, leaving her facing episodes of psychosis, hallucinations and unable to even feed or clean herself.

For the last three months, Rose has been in the children’s ward of Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow – where her condition has sadly only deteriorated, HertsLive reported.

Every day, all day, Rose has at least five staff watching her, with three for security so she can’t injure herself or someone else.

When her mother, Susie Grady, goes into the room to see her, Rose panics as she has no recollection of her family.

“She is very depressed,” Susie said.

“She doesn’t want to be here. She doesn’t think there’s any point. She feels like she’s trapped, locked in a room.

“She has no socialisation with other children, and she doesn’t see her friends. She doesn’t speak to her friends. She doesn’t speak to her family.”

Susie believes that if Rose stays in that same room in the hospital, she will never get better. Instead, Susie believes her daughter should be in a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU), intended for children and adolescents.

Before the pandemic, Rose had been a happy teenager with a close group of friends.

She regularly swam for her local swimming club, played the piano and was predicted top grades in school.

But when lockdown hit, everything came to a crashing halt.

“I think it was very difficult for teenagers to understand why they couldn’t see their friends or why they couldn’t do anything that a normal teenager does,” Susie explained.

“They were just spending way too much time in their rooms and not really doing anything particularly healthy.”

During lockdown, the family faced heart-breaking news as Susie’s mother was diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease and her father fell ill with cancer.

Then the local area was placed in Tier 4 before Christmas, meaning they couldn’t celebrate as they had hoped, and a beloved pet died which tipped her over the edge.

It was around Christmas that Rose began to eat less and restrict her food intake. Her mum added her daughter became depressed and withdrawn.

“She didn’t want to leave her bedroom,” Susie added. “She was just quite unhappy really. She wasn’t thinking anything good about her life.

“School was shut again, so there was just a lot of time in our bedroom doing online learning. I think actually that was quite detrimental.”

“They wanted to do more tests on her because she’s always presented as quite a complex case,” Susie explained. “She’s not one thing or another.

Devastatingly, Susie said Rose “took matters into her own hands” and decided “she wasn’t going to continue living”.

Her parents rushed her to A&E and was admitted into hospital that evening, on the night of April 30, where she has stayed ever since.