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I remember my little brother been born, I was 6 and had wanted a brother after my sister was born. My mum had 3 girls and I knew that my baby brother would complete the family. My dad walked in and out of our lives, picking his friends and other activities over us. My Mum [...]
A brave mum reveals that watching her ex and his girlfriend play happy families with her daughter send her over the edge. While already suffering from postnatal depression, to see her ex and his new partner being so happy together as a family, made her feel even more worthless. My Ex And His Girlfriend Play [...]
Is It Possible For Postnatal Depression To Come Back? I feel at my wits end. I suffered from really bad postnatal depression, in fact it was puerperal psychosis and I had extreme panic attacks after the birth of my 2nd baby. I was close to the. I was nearly got sectioned. My youngest child is [...]
It took a friend to tell me I had a problem. For years I shut myself away, kept my daughter by my side, scared that she would leave me. I always assumed people with post-natal depression felt withdrawn from their child, mine was the complete opposite, I have learnt now that this too, is also [...]
Is depression a disability? I believe it is. Any condition either a physical or mental one that prevents a person from doing normal day to day tasks is a disability in my eyes. What is a disability? It is a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. There are various [...]
Factor V Leiden and pregnancy can be a terrifying time as I was about to find out for the second time. I do believe this strain caused me to fall victim to postnatal depression and I wanted to share my story with you. Finding out your pregnant is meant to be the best experience ever, but for me [...]
I’m writing this blog to make a point that domestic violence isn’t as black and white as people often think, women who hit men are not often heard of. I want to help raise awareness of the fact that it isn’t always a man hitting a woman.. Sometimes a woman is the instigator. I [...]
Postnatal depression affects so many new mothers and the reason many fear postnatal depression treatment is that it means they firstly have to accept that they are struggling and secondly they fear the outcome. What happens if they speak out? Is asking for postnatal depression treatment a sign of failure? Of course it is not, [...]
Before I became pregnant with my daughter I was running my own pub, I had been there 6 months before falling pregnant and there was only there for only another 20 weeks after falling pregnant due to complications with the pregnancy. I did go back to work when my daughter was 4 months old; [...]
I stand here today and wonder how and when I got here. Looking back over the last 3 years of my life at least, I have actually surprised myself and am slowly but surely starting to accept that yes I am strong, stronger than I ever believed possible. 19 years ago I was introduced [...]
If I had received a pound for every mother that asked the question “Will they take my kids away because I have depression”? I would be a very rich lady. While some may believe the question to be far fetched ,it is one I completely understand, I too have questioned this. The reason so [...]
I understand how it feels to want to hurt your baby, I have been there and I know how frightened and how ashamed you are feeling right now. I want to assure you that you’re not evil and you have no reason to feel guilty about having these feelings, but we must get you [...]
Just because you have recently given birth and you feel you should be a happy and content new mother, in reality it does not always happen that way. Not only are breastfeeding mothers now feeling guilty that they have developed postnatal depression, they now worry that they will no longer be able to breastfeed. [...]
Can Men Get Postnatal Depression? Can Men Get Postnatal depression? Yes of course they can. It is just more difficult to spot the signs of a depressed man, we tend to think that someone depressed would be sat crying and as we all know men don’t cry or at least are not as emotional as women. [...]
Postnatal depression has struck you down, you know something is dreadfully wrong yet you desperately try to hold your head up and paint a fake smile on your face and carry on. You do not want to admit that you are struggling, but what are you afraid of? Will others believe you are not caring of [...]
I’m not a natural mum, I am the least maternal person on the planet. So for me motherhood has been a struggle right from the moment I had a positive pregnancy test. I didn’t enjoy being pregnant, wasn’t poorly at all – my pregnancy and labour were textbook perfect. I just couldn’t wait for it [...]
My little girl sat in her baby bouncer happily babbling away to herself, as she clasped her tiny hands around the toy rattle she had been amusing herself with for the past half an hour, she looked up at me with loving eyes and she broke my heart yet again. Why did I want to [...]
The first time I remember being depressed I was at that age of 18. I had been in a relationship with my now fiancé but we were going through a rough patch and had split up. I didn’t know I was depressed at the time, all I remember is feeling so down and the [...]
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