Happy pills? Who needs them As Prozac prescriptions soar, one woman tells how she travelled to the ends of the earth to beat her depression

Beating depression: One woman tells how she travelled to the ends of the earth with inspirational results | Mail Online

Journey of self-discovery: Abi found she didn't need to take anti-depressants once she left her old life behind

Last November, the lights went out. A series of catastrophic events had knocked me off my feet and I wanted out.

During the course of six months, I had witnessed a fatal car crash, spent two months on crutches after another accident and broken up with my boyfriend.

Then in November my horse died in front of me and two days later my GP told me I had pre-cancerous cells in my cervix that needed to be monitored. She’d ordered me to reduce the stress in my life — but it seemed that whatever I did, the punches still came.