A heartbroken dad whose daughter took her personal life after an extended wrestle with psychological sickness says she suffered "a devastating injustice in her care".
Haydn Morgan and his spouse Jayne would take turns sleeping outdoors their 26-year-old daughter Bronwen Morgan's door to cease her from attempting to flee, self-harm or take her personal life through the evening.
He stated: "She did not prefer it, however we could not let her out of our sight. It was the one means we might maintain her secure.
"We had been preventing for her to be admitted to hospital nevertheless it was all the time refused. We simply did not know the place to show."
Rising up, Bronwen was a gifted swimmer, piano participant and fashionable Woman Information.
She additionally cherished working with youngsters, and shortly bagged herself a job within the behavioural unit at her previous major college, Wales On-line reviews.
Throughout her time there, she earned the nickname "Bomb-proof Bron" as she was all the time calm and in management below strain.
However throughout her time in Cardiff College, the place she was coaching to turn out to be a psychological well being nurse, her personal bouts of tension and despair intensified and he or she developed an consuming dysfunction.
Her issues had been additional exacerbated by the pandemic when the same old actions she wanted to handle her psychological well being disappeared nearly in a single day.
This coincided with the companies of her group psychiatric nurse (CPN) being taken away with out warning.
Haydn, a dad-of-three, added that Bronwen would continuously be detained by police below the Psychological Well being Act and despatched to Hafan Y Coed, a specialist psychiatric unit on the grounds of College Hospital Llandough.
Nevertheless he claims she would typically be discharged from the unit with out the household understanding which led to her going lacking.
"Bronwen started to really feel helpless and remoted which meant her psychological well being spiralled uncontrolled and left her in a spot that she felt she couldn't discover a means again from," added Haydn, from Cyncoed, Cardiff.
After many months of ache and trauma, Bronwen was allegedly advised by medical workers that if she had been to seek out herself in a disaster sooner or later, the police would arrest her.
This choice, her household claims, was the ultimate straw.
Haydn, a retired police officer, admitted that he has struggled to shake the reminiscence of the final day he noticed Bronwen alive.
He recalled: "That week she was blissful, smiling and in a very good place. We hadn't seen her like that for ages. Unbeknown to us she had this plan to take her personal life. In a means she was saying goodbye to us, however no person knew.
"She had been attempting to do it for a very long time. We have been advised she was in all probability feeling a way of elation and a way of understanding that 'I'll take my life and my household will be capable of get on with their lives'."
Bronwen was discovered unresponsive at a resort in Pentwyn Street, Cardiff, and died on Thursday, August 27, 2020.
In addition to writing to Cardiff and Vale College Well being Board in a last-ditch cry for assist, she penned a letter to her mum, dad and two youthful sisters, Tesni and Cerys.
"She stated she wished us to know that she had one of the best childhood ever and that we would carried out nothing unsuitable. It was simply heartbreaking," added Haydn.
"We had actually misplaced all hope. We could not discover a means of going ahead and her psychological well being workforce had locked her on this cocoon and insisted that this was the remedy she ought to be having."
Haydn, who's now seeing a therapist himself, added: "Now I am retired, you see pictures of her round the home on a regular basis and it brings all of it again. I have been depressing, drained and indignant - I feel all of us have."
Her heartbroken household claims that if they'd been given extra of a say in her care - which might have led to a extra tailor-made and bespoke method - she might nonetheless be alive right this moment.
They stated Bronwen skilled "a devastating injustice in her care" and was handled with a "blanket method" which had little impact on enhancing her psychological well being.
For the reason that tragedy, Bronwen's household have arrange Bronwen's Want, a charity which goals to supply "secure areas" for younger folks experiencing challenges with their psychological well being.
It goals to supply wellbeing pods in major and secondary faculties which can act as "quiet, stress-free and secure" locations for pupils who wish to discuss their psychological well being.
In June, Haydn and his canine Celog plan to stroll your entire Pembrokeshire coastal path in a single go - the equal distance to climbing Everest - to lift cash for Bronwen's Want.
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"It will take three weeks in all as I've arthritis in each knees so I am going to seemingly want some relaxation days. We'll use just a few campsites alongside the way in which, do some wild tenting and hopefully an evening on the couch midway round. I do know Bron will likely be in my ideas the entire time."
A full inquest into Bronwen's loss of life is about to happen between Might 23 and 25 and the household are making a grievance in opposition to Cardiff and Vale College Well being Board for failures in her care.
A spokeswoman for the well being board stated: "Our ideas are with the household and buddies of Bronwen at this extremely unhappy time. An investigation report has been shared with the household and we reiterate the provide for an extra assembly to debate the findings."
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