A woman has claimed she hardly stepped outside her apartment for five years after she suffered from a rare form of postnatal anxiety which rendered her crippled.
Daily Mail reported that the woman, Jennie Oneill, had the harrowing attack in 2014, nine months after she gave birth to her second child.
Oneill had stepped out to take her older child, as well as her stepson to their school when she suddenly had a panic attack that rendered her legs crippled.
Since that period, she has not been able to go any father distance beyond her street. Any time she tried, she would begin to have difficulty in breathing, leaving her with no choice than to hurry back into her apartment.
As a result of her condition, Oneill has had to live without many friends around. Worse still, she does not expect the condition to improve any time soon.
While sharing her life since developing the condition, the mother-of-two said, “It’s absolutely ruined my life, it’s awful, I’ve been stuck in this house for nearly six years.
“I’ve lost every friend I had, it’s a miserable existence. I used to be the most outgoing person you could ever meet but now I can’t get further than my street.
“I can get just past the garden gate, then I freeze. When I try pushing myself, I get that bit further, but my whole body freezes and I either stand there looking like an idiot, frozen, or run back in.”
Before the attack in 2014, Oneill had an initial episode with severe anxiety when she gave birth to her first daughter. However, she recovered from it after one year.
Lamenting on how useless the condition had rendered her, Oneill, who hated the fact that she could not clean the house, said, “I do want to get out of this, but I can’t see an end to it all.”
She subsequently commended her husband for his support and care since she had become that way.
Speaking on the activities within the family, Oneill said, “I’m just mum at home, anything they want to do out of the house, it’s dad (they have to turn to),” she said. “We have no family days out, no holidays.”
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