If you’ve ever wondered what mental illness ‘looks like’, here it is. This was taken in March, 2016 about two weeks before I was admitted to the mental health unit of my local hospital. What was on the menu? PND, PTSD and OCD. I was in the severe category, which pretty much means anxious and depressed as heck.
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Modern Motherhood | Mental Health Blog Part 3
Sitting on that hospital bed every day I thought, This is it. My life is over. My career is done. Things will never be the same again.
How Becoming a Mother Turned Me Batshit Crazy
Let’s take a moment to quietly reflect on the fact that there’s a little cray-cray in each one of us. Sure, lunacy is a spectrum and every mother sits somewhere on it, whether baby, toddler or teenager in tow. This, however, should be no surprise: motherhood hits you like a […]
Modern Motherhood | Mental Illness Blog Part 2
I constantly had images flashing in my mind of Elias getting wrapped up in the cot sheets and being strangled or smothered to death. As I approached his bed each morning, I often anticipated that I would find him dead from asphyxiation.