The woman, Choo Khai Lun, and her three-year-old son died after they fell from the 32nd floor of Kiara Residence 2, Bukit Jalil, in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday afternoon.
The distraught man, Chen Farn Sern, 28, said Choo, 23, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in May.
According to Chen, his wife had been treated at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) but stopped her medication after just one week, because she said it gave her a headache.
“She had attempted to kill herself in the past by jumping out of a moving vehicle, and also by slashing her wrist. But I managed to save her just in time.
“She also attempted to hang herself but the rope broke,” Chen was quoted as saying by the daily.
He added that his wife did not seem to recall that she had tried to do these things whenever he tried to talk to her about the issue.
Chen, who works as a real estate agent, said he tried his best to comfort Chin, and keep her happy, and to keep her on a positive note always.
“We visited her family in Karak regularly and we also went on family outings, but it didn’t help,” Chen told The Star, adding that he managed to get her to quit her job as her condition worsened.
On the events leading to the tragic double suicide, Chen said they went to Choo’s family home on Monday, and spent the night there.
“The next morning, she took our son and went back to our condominium in Bukit Jalil without telling me.
“When I called her, she said she had no idea what she was doing. I rushed back to our home to take care of her,” The Star quoted Chen as saying.
On Tuesday night, Chen said he took the family to i-City in Shah Alam, but upon returning home, Choo found difficulty in sleeping all night.
“She told me that she wanted to go back to Karak. She then dressed herself and our son as well and left the house,” he said of the events that transpired on Wednesday prior to his wife and son’s death, according to The Star.