Olympian's horror story led to 25 days in a coma

British rugby prima Abi Burton has shared the earthy details of her harrowing wellness trauma successful which she wrongly spent 26 days successful a psychiatric infirmary and 25 days successful a coma.

Burton, 23, represented Great Britain successful sevens astatine the Tokyo OIympics successful 2021, suffering the heartbreak of losing the bronze medal lucifer to Fiji.

After that tourney she felt "really down" and was placed connected anti-depressants.

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Great Britain's Abi Burton is dejected aft losing the bronze medal lucifer astatine the Tokyo Olympics. (Getty)

And successful 2022 she suffered her archetypal seizure portion sitting astatine the meal array with her mum.

Burton was aboriginal treated for "psychosis" arsenic her behaviour continued to deteriorate.

"I went from being a timid, unresponsive person, to truly rather manic behaviour," Burton told the BBC successful an extended interview.

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"I was truly assertive towards my parents, siblings and adjacent the dog... I can't ideate however scary that was for them."

While successful a psychiatric hospital, a subordinate of the autoimmune diseases probe unit yet made a important breakthrough.

"He came up to my dada and said: 'I deliberation your girl has thing physical, I don't deliberation it's mental."

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Burton was diagnosed with the precise uncommon autoimmune encephalitis and moved to a antithetic hospital.

"I was truthful poorly. I knocked a fewer radical retired of the mode trying to flight the ward. I rugby tackled a fewer of the information guards apparently, trying to bust my mode done the doors, which are magnetic and don't unfastened normally."

Eventually, Burton's household made the pugnacious determination to person her enactment successful a coma truthful she could person plasma exchanges.

Abi Burton of Great Britain earlier the Tokyo Olympic Games. (Getty)

During the 25 time coma, Burton contracted pneumonia doubly and mislaid astir 20kg.

Her wellness struggles meant she missed competing astatine the 2022 Commonwealth Games successful Birmingham.

But aft regaining her spot she wants to instrumentality to the World Sevens Series this year.

"It could person been a batch different," she says.

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