The mother of a young woman who tried to jump off of Miramichi’s Centennial Bridge on Tuesday is sharing her anguish.

While she’s grateful to the two police officers and Good Samaritan who saved her daughter’s life, Ginette DesRoches says she is terrified about what could happen when her 19-year-old daughter comes home from the hospital.

“What am I going to do when she gets home? What am I going to do? How am I going to keep her safe? I can’t lock her in her room, I can’t put her in a bubble,” DesRoches said in an interview from her home in Miramichi.

“Where is she going to get the help?”

CTV News has chosen not to reveal her daughter’s identity, but DesRoches describes her daughter as beautiful and talented - a young woman who loves to play the piano and paint.

But she also lives with mental illness, which DesRoches says has been haunting her for years.

DesRoches says it started as an eating disorder, but eventually grew into self-harm and then suicide attempts.

“Overdosing, there were a few times when she tried to hang herself in the woods and then her self-harming,” she said.

DesRoches says she had to beg Miramichi hospital staff to keep her daughter under psychiatric care for 72 hours.

“I explained to him that my daughter was on a bridge, wanting to end her life, they had to close the bridge down, there were police officers that saved her, put her in an ambulance, drove her to this hospital, and you’re telling me that you’re going to put her on a voluntary basis, that she could walk out in 10 minutes if she wanted to?”

DesRoches continues to seek the right help for her daughter. She believes an in-patient care program is the best option, but it’s an option that’s not readily available for New Brunswickers.

There is a facility for youth being constructed in Campbellton, but it won’t be open until August, 2018.

CTV News was told New Brunswick’s health minister was unavailable for comment, but the Department of Health did issue the following statement:

“In the last 6 years, the Department of Health has been focusing its efforts on the implementation of the Mental Health Action Plan which seeks to enhance services in communities.”

New Brunswick’s child and youth advocate says the lack of services is a problem in the province.

“Where do we send the youth who have serious problems, mental health problems? Right now, we don’t have a facility,” said Norm Bosse.

Bosse says it’s up the patient’s doctor or psychiatrist to decide what is best for the patient. But in a perfect world, help would be immediate.

“There’d be a facility where we can send the young person to. They’d be assessed, properly assessed by a team…and they would come up with a case plan,” he said.

DesRoches is now considering out-of-province care. She says the lack of services in New Brunswick could result in her daughter’s death.

“What if my daughter dies or commits suicide, is that OK? Is that acceptable? Because it’s not OK with me. It’s my biggest fear. I can’t lose my daughter. I can’t lose her, it would kill me.”

With files from CTV Atlantic's Laura Brown