Bride became so stressed planning her wedding she started hallucinating, lost 90 pounds

A mom-of-two says she was so stressed by her wedding preparations that her brain “had enough” — and she went into psychosis. Megan Finn, 27, had to juggle rescheduling her wedding, looking after two children and running her own nail salon from March 2020 to July 2022. She says her weight dropped drastically from 182 to 91, she stopped sleeping and hallucinated people’s voices in her house. During her rescheduled honeymoon on July 13, 2022, her brain “had enough” — and she started having hallucinations about her husband, production operative Jordan, 30, falling off their balcony. On returning home to Belfast, Megan was sectioned by two police officers, and she spent nearly 10 weeks in the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Centre, Belfast. Now, she says she feels stable — but warns it isn’t healthy to glamorize the stress of being a woman who “has it all.” Megan, a nail technician from Belfast, said: “The reason I ended up the way I was, was because I was so stressed — being the woman who owns the business, looks after the kids and has the fairytale wedding is so glamorized. “Preparing for our wedding was pretty plain sailing at first – but when lockdown hit, there was so much we had to rearrange. “On top of that, my husband was an essential worker — so I had to look after and homeschool two kids under 10. “My business was struggling as we weren’t getting grants, and he was the only person bringing any money in. “To be honest, the moment we went on our honeymoon and my brain had time to relax — I think it had just had enough, it didn’t know what to do.”In March 2020, Megan and Jordan had been engaged for two years, and were looking forward to their wedding day on June 10, the same year. But when lockdown hit, the couple were told by their venue they would likely have to push their celebration back indefinitely. Megan had to postpone her photographer, band, DJ, and store her own wedding dress at home — because she...