With one in five women experiencing a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the year after giving birth, chances are, most of us will know somebody who is suffering from postnatal depression (PND).
Watching a loved one go though such a tough time can be frustrating and heartbreaking- all you want to do is to make them feel better but often you just don’t know how.
While every case of PND is different, here are a few things that may help.
You will have your own sense of anxiety and the ways it manifests itself and how it impacts you. If anxiety is restricting your ability to function and enjoy the life you have right now then it’s worth exploring ways of lessening the hold it has on you.
It’s impossible to describe how it feels to lose a parent. When you hear of other people’s losses, you have an idea in your head of what it might feel like. You imagine more often than not that initial sickening, explosive feeling when you find out they have gone. But nothing can prepare you for finding a way to cope with the longevity of losing someone who, from birth, has played such an enormous part in your life.
Today, mums are expected to be a super mum. Surviving everything that is thrown at them with a smile and perfect makeup. I think I nearly broke myself making sure all the boxes were ticked and everyone was happy. Everyone that is a part from me.
