My paedophilic thoughts made me want to die, it was torture – then I discovered it’s a disorder that affects 1m people

WHEN Kirsty Hapgood, 47, begged her husband to take her to A&E, she was suicidal at the thought that she’d harmed her baby. “I basically presented saying I wasn’t sure whether I’d abused my daughter, but instead of stigma and shock, I was treated with compassion, which was life-changing,” she tells Sun Health. The mum-of-five,...