According to Daily Mirror - 3am Showbiz, Kimberley Nixon described the period as the scariest thing that ever happened to her, saying she did not know whether she could trust herself for two years. She recounted feeling lost, with people only calling her 'mum' and struggling to remember who she was, which she described as brutal. The actress also shared that at one point, her thoughts became relentless, and she considered handing herself into police, telling her husband she might do something bad in the future.
Nixon gave birth to her son via IVF during the pandemic and suffered from postnatal OCD afterward, though the exact timeline of when symptoms began relative to the birth in 2020 is unclear. On social media, she posted about being clinically diagnosed with Autism and ADHD, adding she feels lighter than she has in a long time because instead of feeling like her brain is 'broken', she knows now that it was just doing things differently all this time. Nixon is known for playing Catrina McVey in the BBC series Death in Paradise, but it is unknown how her roles in that show or Fresh Meat were affected by her health issues.
That is the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. Yeah. Not knowing whether I could trust myself for like two years.
The specific treatments or support she received for her postnatal OCD and perinatal OCD have not been disclosed, and it is unclear whether her husband or other family members provided additional details beyond what she shared. The current status of her mental health and any ongoing management of her Autism, ADHD, and OCD remains unknown.
I was like, where have I gone? Where have I, and no one’s calling me by my name anymore. Every time I went to speak to someone, I was just mum. Just mum, mum. I was like, I couldn’t remember who I was. It was really brutal.
At some point I was like, to the point where it wouldn’t, it was like clockwork orange wouldn’t stop. Yeah.
And I was like, I came downstairs and I just went, I’m gonna go to the police station. And my husband was like, ‘what are you gonna tell them?’ That I could possibly in the future at some point do something bad.