When my former partner and I met in May 2000 we were both recreational drug users. Drug use became the basis of our relationship and within a year we were both addicts.
In June 2003, our daughter Becky* was born and we both stayed clean for three years.
But it was around this time that my partner Karen* started to experience mental health problems. Our relationship came under pressure as we both turned to drugs again. Karen and I separated, and in the following chaotic year her condition worsened. She and Becky lived a nomadic life around west London. Her yet-to-be-diagnosed bipolar disorder caused her to believe that she was being persecuted.
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