‘When you are so broken, you don’t know anything about yourself any more. I mean, I describe it as like you’ve left your own body, it’s a feeling you have: a near-death experience where you leave your own body. Actually, if you’re going through severe domestic violence, male or female, whoever the victim is, you have actually left your own body, you’re no longer that person who is strong. Somebody else has taken you out of yourself and it’s a real struggle to get back into your own body and your own mental state. It’s a very tough thing to do.’
