I can’t even bring myself to read the comments. I’m going to admit that I thought postpartum depression was depression linked to not being pregnant anymore, missing being pregnant. I was ignorant and I know it, but the only time I heard of it is in those shitty People magazine articles before I got pregnant.

When I first learned what it actually was and how awful it can be, I was terrified and I knew, struggled my entire life with depression, anxiety and PTSD, that I would most likely suffer from PPD too. I was right. It was by far the darkest and scariest time of my entire life. I had never come closer to ending my life than when my PPD was constantly screaming in my mind that I was a worthless mother/wife. It is a true demon and people that say otherwise are EXTREMELY uneducated and just cruel. Society needs to stop this shaming and exploitation of mental illness, it’s not something that just fucking goes away, people don’t just simply ‘get over it’. I hate it so much that other people have gone through and will continue to go through PPD/PPA, I know we can’t cure it but we can talk about it. We can let them know they’re not alone, we can offer a hand and a listening heart.