In the weeks after her first course of electroconvulsive therapy, Dr Sue Cunliffe found she could no longer walk through a door without bashing into the door frame.

‘Everything you learnt and knew is no longer there. Your brain just lets you down all the time.’

Walking through doors wasn’t the only thing Cunliffe suddenly found challenging. Then a paediatrician who had been in the process of qualifying as a consultant, Cunliffe found she could no longer recognise people’s faces. She struggled to help her kids with their times tables. All her medical training was gone.

“I remember standing in the kitchen thinking, should I be able to walk through a door without walking into a door frame, or have I always walked into door frames?” says Cunliffe, looking back on a period that would change her life forever.

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