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I was hooked on happy pills Kirsty Morrison (right) was on one of the Tube trains hit by terrorist bombs on July 7, 2005. Tormented by flashbacks, she was prescribed antidepressants - and that's when her problems really began
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ON the morning of July 7, 2005, I stepped on to a Piccadilly Line
Tube train and began my regular subterranean journey across London.
Little did I know that this was to be the start of a journey that has
not yet found its end.
It was the Tube train on which a 19-year-old man decided to blow
himself up, killing 26 innocent people and injuring hundreds of
others.I was one of the 'lucky' ones. I was physically unscathed and
walked away from that scene of devastation intact, or so I thought.
The psychological injuries were buried deep within my brain and went
unnoticed for weeks.
Something in my ...
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