Last night his 79-year-old father David, the 12th Marquess of Queensberry, told of his family's devastation.
'He had a problem with bi-polar disorder,' he said outside the family's London home.
'He decided he had enough. It's the worst thing that can happen to anyone, but I guess it has to happen to somebody every now and again.
'He would swing from highs to lows, and had a very severe depression. I suppose we have known about it ten or 12 years.
'He just hit a very black, low period. 'Basically he decided the problems of life exceeded its advantages, in a way. He was on medication, but I don't think he could have been absolutely right.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203872/Tormented-lord-jumps-death-council-block.html#ixzz1NqE5L6fR
Gay Lord Milo - manic depressive on Lithium last 10 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/mick-brown/8534058/Should-more-have-been-done-to-save-Lord-Milo-Douglas.html
Working doggedly, he gained a 2:1 in English, before returning to London to work for an online antiquarian book dealer. He embarked on a gay love affair with a young Italian. When the relationship fell apart, he was devastated. In 1999, when he was 24, he had his first bipolar manic episode.
'It manifested itself by classic behaviour,’ Lady Queensberry says. 'There were overwhelming religious aspects to his thoughts; he became hectoring about moral issues, bewitched by sequences of numbers; he saw other faces superimposed on those of people he knew. He would invite tramps back home and gave away his possessions and money to people sheltering under Waterloo Bridge.’
When his behaviour became unmanageable he was taken to hospital, where his condition was diagnosed. He was prescribed lithium – the standard mood-stabilising medication for the condition. For the next 10 years, Lord Milo would remain under the monitoring eye of psychiatrists, both private and NHS.
'He had a problem with bi-polar disorder,' he said outside the family's London home.
'He decided he had enough. It's the worst thing that can happen to anyone, but I guess it has to happen to somebody every now and again.
'He would swing from highs to lows, and had a very severe depression. I suppose we have known about it ten or 12 years.
'He just hit a very black, low period. 'Basically he decided the problems of life exceeded its advantages, in a way. He was on medication, but I don't think he could have been absolutely right.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203872/Tormented-lord-jumps-death-council-block.html#ixzz1NqE5L6fR
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Gay Lord Milo - manic depressive on Lithium last 10 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/mick-brown/8534058/Should-more-have-been-done-to-save-Lord-Milo-Douglas.html
Working doggedly, he gained a 2:1 in English, before returning to London to work for an online antiquarian book dealer. He embarked on a gay love affair with a young Italian. When the relationship fell apart, he was devastated. In 1999, when he was 24, he had his first bipolar manic episode.
'It manifested itself by classic behaviour,’ Lady Queensberry says. 'There were overwhelming religious aspects to his thoughts; he became hectoring about moral issues, bewitched by sequences of numbers; he saw other faces superimposed on those of people he knew. He would invite tramps back home and gave away his possessions and money to people sheltering under Waterloo Bridge.’
When his behaviour became unmanageable he was taken to hospital, where his condition was diagnosed. He was prescribed lithium – the standard mood-stabilising medication for the condition. For the next 10 years, Lord Milo would remain under the monitoring eye of psychiatrists, both private and NHS.
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