You managed to write a beautiful, heartfelt, and honest post about such a complex and sensitive issue. I never experienced PPD, but I read a lot about it, some things that were really terrible. A friend of mine had to leave her baby with her sister for his first month of life. During that month, she was afraid she might consider suicide seriously; she went to therapy and got a lot of help. Fortunately, it worked for her. She says that for years she didn't share information about this chapter of her life with anyone because it was too embarrassing, but then she learned that it happened more often than people liked to admit. Then she was able to make peace with herself and opened up about it.
...and reminded her that she just made an entire person; all that mattered to me was spending time with them...
I'm not going to talk about you bringing flowers for your friend even though I think it was really sweet, and I know it made a considerable and very healthy impact on her. But what you said, ah, it was so similar to what a dear friend said to me when he came to visit my newborn son; he said, “You have made a whole and perfect person...You mean the whole world to him and he to you.” I'll never forget that. It made me feel differently about motherhood at a time when I was completely sure I I had no idea about what to do to keep a person safe in such a mad world. I thought, that much love has to be enough.
So no PPD for me, but et me tell you I did suffer a lot during my son's adolescence. He changed a lot for a couple of years and it was very difficult to handle; he became very sensitive, irreverent, disobedient--it's a considerable list of regrets, like he was a different person--then he went back to his old self and now that he's a young man, he thanks me for never giving up on him. We're best friends. I hope You and your kids are best friends too when they grow up ❤️
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Very much appreciated, @topcomment & @friendlymoose ❤️
It's very pleasant to see your beautiful face today for the first time 😂. I'm surprised that some mothers do suffer this type of distractions. I never had such attacks. It's so pathetic,.. uhhhh