A GP who blogged about her battle with bipolar disorder was found hanged

A GP who blogged about her battle with bipolar disorder was found hanged after being suspended from work.

Dr Wendy Potts, 46, was given leave from her job after a patient saw a candid account of her condition online and complained.

Her partner Mark St John Jones found her

 Mr Jones said Dr Potts kept an online blog in which she stated she suffered from bipolar disorder, a mental health condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression.

He told the court a patient read the blog and complained to Dr Potts' surgery, which was not named during the hearing.he GP was suspended from the practice after the October half-term break which deepened her mood.

Mr Jones said: 'Wendy said, 'How can I have been so stupid?' - relating to the blog.'

The court heard Dr Potts was under psychiatric care and her medication was increased after the suspension.

Before Dr Potts' died, the suspension was lifted by the surgery but this was subject to other investigations being completed.

Mr Jones said Dr Potts had experienced other work-related stresses, including dealing with the death of a patient.

The coroner was also told the keen cyclist and climber had previously tried to commit suicide.

But consultant psychiatrist Dr David Walker said he was not aware of this attempt. 'She chose not to tell me this had happened,' he added.

Dr Potts' mother Joan told the court about her daughter's manic in February 2014.

She said: 'She was shouting, jumping on the settee and talking in rhyme. It was very strange - I've never seen anything like it before.

'We didn't see anything like it again.'

After the manic high, Dr Potts did not work for three months.

Mrs Potts added her daughter 'felt she had got more than she could cope with' after she and her partner bought a smallholding in Cardigan, west Wales, in May.

However, Mr Jones said: 'Wendy wrote in her blog that this was what she wanted. 'She wanted to get away from work.'

Derbyshire's Assistant Coroner James Newman adjourned the inquest to obtain and read a report relating to Dr Potts' suspension from work.

The hearing will continue on a date yet to be fixed.