A NURSE who took her own life after struggling with mental illness was ‘failed by all’, an inquest heard.

Isobel Styborski, 56, who worked at Furness General Hospital, died at her Millom home on April 24.

An inquest into her death held at Cockermouth Coroners’ Court heard an emotional statement from her ‘heartbroken’ husband, Tony Styborski.

He said: “She was often stressed at work and unhappy with her job. She was looking forward to retirement.

“Her suicide came out of nowhere. She must have had a lot going on in her head that she kept in her head.

“I wish she had spoken to me and I still had my beautiful girl instead of being heartbroken.

“The system is very poor, to say the least. Isobel was failed by all and has now perished.”

The inquest heard that Mrs Styborski was a ‘hard-working’ woman, who was balancing looking after her family and working at the hospital.

During the last couple of years, she was finding her job much harder due to the demands put upon her.

In the past, she had suffered with ‘very bad’ depression and had post-natal depression following the birth of her son, Joseph.

Her husband said she struggled with insecurities and was ‘such an overthinker’.

Mrs Styborski had undergone a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, but this made issues with back pain worse.

On the day of his wife’s death, Mr Styborski had left for work just after 7am. Mrs Styborski called him on his mobile.

There had been a family argument at the weekend while visiting their son. They had a discussion on the phone and Mr Styborski said he was upset about the incident at the weekend. She had hung up on him.

Mr Styborski tried calling her back but there was no answer. He returned home later that day and noticed that his wife’s car was still on the drive.

He discovered Mrs Styborski after entering the house. He was in ‘complete shock’ and went into the street, where he saw his neighbours. They came into the house and called emergency services.

The ambulance service arrived but it was clear that Mrs Styborski had died.

A toxicology report revealed Mrs Styborski had an antidepressant and a medication for nerve pain in her system. The cause of death was given as hanging.

Robert Cohen, assistant coroner for Cumbria, said: “Clearly, this was somebody who on occasion struggled with bouts of mental illness.”

The coroner concluded that Mrs Styborski ‘intended to cause herself really serious harm’ and her death was a suicide.

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