Mothering Through the Darkness
eBook - ePub

Mothering Through the Darkness

Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mothering Through the Darkness

Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience

About this book

Approximately 1 in 7 women suffer from postpartum depression after having a baby. Many more may experience depression during pregnancy, postpartum anxiety, OCD, and other mood disorders. Postpartum depression is, in fact, the most common pregnancy-related complication—yet confusion and misinformation about this disorder are still widespread. And these aren’t harmless myths: the lack of clarity surrounding mothers’ mental health challenges can have devastating effects on their well-being and their identities as mothers, which too often leads to shame and inadequate treatment. In this one-of-a-kind anthology, thirty mothers break the silence to dispel myths about postpartum mental health issues and explore the diversity of women’s experiences. Powerful and inspiring, Mothering Through the Darkness will comfort every mother who’s ever felt alone, ashamed, and hopeless—and, hopefully, inspire her to speak out.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781631528057
Subtopic
Abnormal Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Here Comes the Sun
  9. It Got Better, But It Took a Long Time to Get Good
  10. Life with No Room
  11. Afterbirth
  12. Scar Tissue
  13. I Love You; Leave Me Alone
  14. A Different Shade of the Baby Blues
  15. The Comeback
  16. Even Shamans Get the Blues
  17. His Baby Watermelon Head
  18. Open Sesame
  19. Fragments of a Fractured Mind
  20. Sometimes There Aren’t Enough Bags of Chips
  21. Leaving the Island
  22. Recovering My Stranger-Self
  23. Fear of Falling
  24. Light in the Midst of Darkness
  25. The Breast of Me
  26. The Savage Song of My Birthright Blues
  27. My Face in the Darkness
  28. We Come Looking for Hope
  29. No Stranger
  30. Never, Now, and Always
  31. The Day I Am Not OK
  32. Making Tea with Pressed Leaves
  33. My Personal Ocean of Depression
  34. Breathe
  35. Depression Is a Numbers Game
  36. Recognizing the Darkness
  37. My Longest Winter
  38. My Many Mothers
  39. Hanging On by a Thread
  40. Cranes
  41. Shattered and Whole: Embracing Ambivalence
  42. Q&A With Jessica Zucker, Phd
  43. Author Bios
  44. Acknowledgments
  45. Footnotes

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