Post-Natal Depression
Feb. 27th, 2008 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheI'm not depressed. Stressed, anxious, and with PMT, yes, but not depressed.
But it's all around anyway. A friend of mine is enduring through moderate PND now; I'm helping her as much as I can but that's not much. The radio has bits about it, on and off, and Woman's Hour had a whole show this morning. And there's the whole horrible Nollaig and Tadhg thing, just barely over six months ago.
So today I found myself - because of my clear and complete failure as a mother, natch (no, I don't believe this, but I did for about five minutes) - looking at the tempting slope of depression again. And it's very tempting.
But I don't want to go there.
But it's all around anyway. A friend of mine is enduring through moderate PND now; I'm helping her as much as I can but that's not much. The radio has bits about it, on and off, and Woman's Hour had a whole show this morning. And there's the whole horrible Nollaig and Tadhg thing, just barely over six months ago.
So today I found myself - because of my clear and complete failure as a mother, natch (no, I don't believe this, but I did for about five minutes) - looking at the tempting slope of depression again. And it's very tempting.
But I don't want to go there.