The Times
THE Scottish Socialist Party MSP Rosie Kane yesterday told how she struggled for more than a month "in a very dark place" when she was laid low by depression last year.
She also described how the condition left her unable to communicate with her two daughters.
Ms Kane, who stopped work after suffering clinical depression, described her ordeal in her first broadcast interview since returning to work in the Scottish Parliament. She told the Radio 5 Live interviewer Simon Mayo that as her condition deteriorated her friends knew but she at first carried on working, in "complete denial".
"I hit a wall," she said. "I just retreated to the settee with a continental quilt. It sounds like you're down and you're having a duvet day but it's very, very different to that...I have two beautiful, bright, wonderful daughters and I was unable to communicate with them at any level."
Ms Kane said that she had received therapy, medication and counselling which helped her recovery, and she now organised her work in a different way.