article_snippet.sent: Doris Fuller's daughter, Natalie, 28, suffered from bipolar disorder and psychosis, and died when Mother Doris stepped in front of a train in Baltimore, Maryland, last month.
article_snippet.sent: Opening up: Doris Fuller's daughter Natalie, left with Mother Doris mom, killed Mother Doris last month - and now Doris Fuller's has opened up about how Natalie's bipolar disorder and psychosis led to her death .
article_snippet.sent: In a long article about Natalie daughter's life for the Washington Post, Doris Fuller's wrote how their famously close relationship was changed for good when Natalie had Natalie first psychotic episode at the age of 22, after Natalie had left for college.
article_snippet.sent: Doris Fuller's wrote: 'In the span of a few weeks Natalie went from being a dazzling young adult with the world at Natalie feet to a psych-ward patient with an arrest record.'
article_snippet.sent: And though medicines and proper treatment gave Natalie her daughter life back for a time, her daughter eventually decided to stop taking her daughter meds, which brought her daughter troubles back, even more acute than before.
article_snippet.sent: Although Natalie, a keen artist who sculpted, painted and wrote poetry, often seemed fine while on medication, Fuller told how Fuller future seemed a little bleaker every time Fuller relapsed.
article_snippet.sent: Difficulties: Natalie (left in 2014) was not diagnosed with a mental health problem until Fuller was 22 - before then Fuller had a regular childhood (right).
article_snippet.sent: According to the article, the final, ultimately fatal, change came last fall when Natalie concluded that the drugs were not helping Natalie at all, and gave the drugs up for good.
article_snippet.sent: Fuller, the executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center charity has said since Natalie's death that Natalie wants Natalie 'legacy' to be increased understanding and compassion for the those who have mental illnesses.
highlights_snippet.sent: Natalie Fuller, 28, stepped in front of a train in Baltimore last month .
  