I stressed so much by planning my wedding that I started to halucin and lost 90 pounds

A mother of two says she was so stressed out of her wedding preparations that her brain “had enough”-and she went to psychosis.

Megan Finn, 27, had to deceive her wedding reconstruction, looking for two children and running her nail salon from March 2020 to July 2022.

She says her weight fell drastically from 182 to 91, she stopped sleeping and hallucinating people’s voices in her home.

During her reset month of honey month on July 13, 2022, her brain “had enough” – and she began to have hallucinations for her husband, the Jordan production operative, 30, falling from their balcony.

When she returned home to Belfast, Megan was separated from two police officers, and she spent nearly 10 weeks at the Acute Mental Health Center, Belfast.

Now, she says she feels stable – but warns that it is not healthy to fascinate the stress of being a woman who “has it all”.

Megan, a nail technician from Belfast, said: “The reason I ended up as I was, it was because I was so stressed – being the woman who owns the business, taking care of the children and having the wedding of the tale is so fascinated.

“Preparing for our wedding was pretty simple sailing at first – but when it hit the blocking, there was so much we had to re -regulate.

“Moreover, my husband was an essential worker – so I had to take care of my home school two children under 10.

“My business was fighting because we were not getting grants, and he was the only person to bring money.

“To be honest, the moment we went to the honeymoon and my brain had time to relax – I think there was just enough, didn’t know what to do.”

In March 2020, Megan and Jordan were engaged for two years, and were looking forward to their wedding day on June 10, the same year.

But when they hit the blocking, the couple were told from their country, they are likely to have to postpone their celebration indefinitely.

Megan had to push her photographer, the band, the DJ and to keep her wedding dress at home – because she was afraid that the store would leave the business before her big day.

“We had to change everything in our marriage license,” she said.

“As well as the re -regulation of the hair stylist, the artist of composition and entertainment – I had to get my home wedding outfit because I was worried he would lose forever.”

When she was able to open her own business salon, Megan started working for 12 hours without vacation – as well as trying to adapt to her children’s home education in her holiday days.

In the space of two years, she lost about 90 pounds, throwing four sizes of dress – which friends and family put on wedding nerves.

But by June 2022, it became clear that something “worse” was in the game – when my mother stopped sleeping and began to have hearing hallucinations.

She added: “Leading to my wedding, things started to get a little worse and worrying.

“I started talking significantly quickly, as if I were excited.

“It was about the time when I began to have real, paranoid, hearing hallucinations.

“I thought I could hear friends at home – when no one was there except me and my husband.”

Megan and Jordan were married on July 9, 2022 – but despite being felt like he could “rest”, her symptoms worsened alone.

The Pairift left with their children, aged seven and nine, and Megan’s mother, Barber Tanya, 57, for their ‘family’ in Alcudia, Spain, on July 13.

But Tanya found herself to take care of Megan – as her hallucinations became so bad, she thought Jordan had fallen from their apartment balcony.

One day to go before the end of the holiday, a Spanish doctor advised Megan to go home.

“My father and sister flew to take me home,” she said.

“On the way from Dublin’s airport to Belfast, I remember thinking my sister was a MI5 agent – and out to get me.

“We went into a quarrel, which led me to separate from the police.”

The mother of two was taken to the Belfast Acute Mental Health Unit, where she was hospitalized for nine and a half week.

Its treatment plan involved taking antipsychotics once a day-and it took three different medicines to get it out of its psychosis.

After being dismissed, she was given a psychiatrist and mental health of the community, which she still sees every month.

Now, she feels “stable” and on her way to become “herself” again – but Megan wants to warn others not to fascinate stress.

“I’ve learned not to push myself,” she said.

“I know my boundaries and my early warning signs to get back – how not to sleep, losing weight and spending excess amounts of money.

“Don’t overload stress-it’s much more important to be stable.”