Author thought about taking her life 24 hours a day

Bestselling author Marian Keyes has opened up about admitting herself to a psychiatric hospital when she was having suicidal thoughts 24 hours a day.

The 50-year-old writer, who has sold 24m books, has had a well-catalogued battle with the mental illness, but she is set to open up about her lowest moment with the terrifying disease as part of TV3’s Ireland AM’s Time to Talk Mental Health Campaign.

The Watermelon author has told how she asked her husband to make a suicide pact with her during her battle with depression, as she did not want to leave him alone. She eventually went into St John of God’s Psychiatric Hospital for her own protection and is now a firm advocate of keeping suicidal people safe from harming themselves.