Post by Admin on Nov 3, 2013 10:53:25 GMT 12
For day two of our PND awareness raising mission I wanted to try and find a blog that really gives a personal insight into the experience, the thoughts and feelings. There are lots of wonderfully eloquent bloggers out there, but I chose Daft Mamma. She was voted into the circleofmoms.com top 25 Postpartum depression blogs last year... I think her style of honest, straightforward writing makes her easy to understand... Tell us what you think.
"As I write this blog, I can feel many different emotions and can remember so much from those days, I refer to as “black and lonely”. I guess other people would use different types of words and feelings but those are the two which describe mine… I changed a lot and became such a different person who went from excited about my future , with so many plans and ideas, to someone who didn’t want to get up in the morning, had elaborate schemes of leaving my husband and running away, asking to move in with my mother in law(which to all those who know me, realize I was was certifiably nuts to have such a thought), to going back home to live with my parents but knew that this wasn’t an option due to the accident. I remember people who came to visit and meet my daughter and how i envied them when they left as they didn’t have any sleepless nights ahead of them, had normal lives to resume with normal routines, no bottles to make up at 3am, just total and utter normality. I felt that this was going to be my life forever, I would never watch another movie, I would never go out with my husband for dinner again, I wouldn’t be me. In fact, “Me” was slipping away and becoming unrecognizable to myself and others around me...."
Read the full post at: My first post re-PND
daftmamma.co.uk
"As I write this blog, I can feel many different emotions and can remember so much from those days, I refer to as “black and lonely”. I guess other people would use different types of words and feelings but those are the two which describe mine… I changed a lot and became such a different person who went from excited about my future , with so many plans and ideas, to someone who didn’t want to get up in the morning, had elaborate schemes of leaving my husband and running away, asking to move in with my mother in law(which to all those who know me, realize I was was certifiably nuts to have such a thought), to going back home to live with my parents but knew that this wasn’t an option due to the accident. I remember people who came to visit and meet my daughter and how i envied them when they left as they didn’t have any sleepless nights ahead of them, had normal lives to resume with normal routines, no bottles to make up at 3am, just total and utter normality. I felt that this was going to be my life forever, I would never watch another movie, I would never go out with my husband for dinner again, I wouldn’t be me. In fact, “Me” was slipping away and becoming unrecognizable to myself and others around me...."
Read the full post at: My first post re-PND
daftmamma.co.uk