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A 78-year-old woman from Seaford died after taking a medication overdose one night last year.

Sylvia Lim died at Eastbourne DGH on October 13 2019 days after being admitted to hospital for taking an overdose of her blood pressure medication.

An inquest at Eastbourne Town Hall on Thursday (December 17) heard Mrs Lim, of Corsica Road, was struggling with the death of her mother the previous year and was suffering from hallucinations and confusion ever since.

Mrs Lim went on holiday to Greece with her daughter, Claire Lim, just before she died.

Eastbourne Town Hall (Photo by Jon Rigby) SUS-190425-155054008

Claire Lim said the second half of the holiday was when her mother started to hallucinate and eventually had a ‘nocturnal psychotic episode’ according to East Sussex coroner James Healy-Pratt.

Claire Lim said, “She said some odd things. She wasn’t herself.”

When the pair returned to the country, her GP Ian Bayles prescribed her anti-psychotic medication and referred her to Hill Rise, a risk and assessment service in Newhaven on October 1.

In the early hours of October 4 Mrs Lim woke her daughter to tell her she had taken an overdose of her blood pressure pills.

Seaford woman died after her actions during a ‘nocturnal psychotic episode’