Beyond "Depression" Symptoms
TweetAt 6 weeks postpartum, I declared myself crazy. I had no idea what was happening to me and I couldn’t explain it. I did not fall in the very minimal “cookie cutter” list of symptoms that was...
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TweetI’m throwing “it” out there today…. I take antidepressants to treat my postpartum depression (PPD) and anxiety and I am not ashamed of “it”. “It” does not define me as a weak person “It”...
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TweetWhen I landed my dream job as an ER nurse, I was in my glory. I loved gorey things, bloody things, broken things and infected things and the ER was a place that housed them all on a daily basis....
View ArticleScrew It…Ativan, Take Me Away
Tweet*Knock, knock Me: “Oh, hello Aunt Flow, so nice of you to visit me…at work. I see you brought a box full of anxiety with you. You shouldn’t have. No, no really, you shouldn’t have. I’m allergic...
View ArticleA Little Inspiration On A Snowy Day
TweetI would like to apologize to any woman out there suffering from postpartum depression (PPD) and related mood disorders who have come to my blog recently. It seems as though I’ve taken a wrong turn...
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