Doctor suicide: “All I could see were tasks mounting, appointments being booked, and people constantly knocking on my door”

Sarah Jacques remembers the day she came close to killing herself.The 46 year old former GP from Battle, East Sussex, says she “just snapped” one day at work, drove to the seafront, parked her car, and got out to watch the sea. She stayed there for six hours, thinking about drowning.“I just kept wanting to walk into the sea. I wouldn’t have tried to swim,” Jacques says. “Looking back, I don’t think I was conscious in that moment of how bad I was, how strong those feelings were. I just felt completely overwhelmed.”That morning—1 August 2022—began like any other, with a 7 30 am drive to her workplace, a surgery in Heathfield where she worked as a full time partner. “I suddenly found myself crying. I’d never done that before—cried as I drove to work,” she recalls. “I got to work and had to drag myself out of the car—I…
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