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To the New Mom Hiding Her Postpartum Depression: Speak Up

Have you ever walked down a dimly lit street, alone and at night, and felt the overwhelming sense that determined footsteps follow you? Not exactly…

There’s no way this is postpartum depression. How could it be? I remember thinking this to myself as I received the diagnosis seven months after my…

I grew up one of four kids in a middle-class family. I shared a room with my two sisters and sometimes wore hand-me-downs but never went without.…

There’s an old hymn I sing when I rock my babies to sleep. I sang it during my deepest depression with tears falling on my firstborn’s little…

The nurse handed me a piece of paper with questions I had been dreading to answer. I put on my best I’m fine face while simultaneously sipping a…

“But you’re such a good mom.” The words took my breath away. I was with a few moms outside my daughter’s dance class. I…

“Have you been depressed or thought of suicide?” The question rolled off the doctor’s tongue, and I smiled and shook my head on cue. I had…

I felt it coming . . . that dreaded fog slowly rolling in. As my new baby lay peacefully sleeping on my chest, I felt it creeping in. Instead of…

Hey, beautiful mama. As I glance at you at the park, at the café, pushing the pram down the street, I see you there, but I do not entirely see you.…

Medication for a mood disorder is “taking the easy way out”. Those are actual words I have heard in reference to people taking medication to help…