Is there life after a maternal mental illness? Is recovery even possible? Will you ever be you again? When you realise you have a maternal mental illness one of the difficulties can be that you feel like you will have lost yourself forever. This can then prevent us...
You have discovered that you are one of the 1 in 5 UK mums affected by maternal mental health, now your being offered medication. But your unsure, maybe your pregnant and are worried the meds will harm baby. Or similarly breastfeeding and not sure if the meds will...
There was on thing I noticed when I was waiting in my local ante natal clinic after a scan. There was no posters or information leaflets about maternal mental health, which is why I am now on a mission to change this. But, its not to say that there isn’t support...
Mental illnesses come in various shapes and sizes and they affect us all differently. One persons experience of depression won’t be the same for everyone. People will experience the illness in varying degrees and each will find varying symptoms more or less...
As with everything in life, we don’t like what we don’t know. Lack of education is a huge fear factor and contributes to the majority of stigma faced in any situation or illness. As people, we fear the unknown, we feel uncomfortable, threatened and uneasy when we are...
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