Best Postpartum Depression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Postpartum depression and anxiety that 11-20% of women experience is not at all the same as the more commonly experienced 'baby blues' 80% of women experience for a few weeks.”

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Book:Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

Source: Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

“Claude was a sensitive soul; I couldn't say what I thought to him. My thoughts were spiky with barbs of ugliness. I recognized the darkness in them but could say nothing about it to any of my family members.”

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Book:From Out of Feldspar

Source: From Out of Feldspar

“Postpartum depression makes you suddenly feel like a stranger to yourself, but knowing the clinical facts are the first step toward wellness.”

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Book:Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

Source: Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

“Being a new mother is supposed to be the happiest time of your life, but postpartum depression and anxiety strip that away for a time, but trust that it will not last forever.”

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Book:Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

Source: Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

“I admit I am an unnatural thing for not loving my child. But I hardly know my child. How can anyone love a thing that reveals nothing of itself. . . except for its unending screams?”

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Book:The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs

Source: The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs

“كان عليّ أن أعيش هذا الاكتئاب لكي أجمع شظايا نفسي من جديد.”

Life Depression Maternity Postpartum Depression

Author:أليف شافاق

“I want to kill you!!!’ said crazy mommy of newborn baby!”

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Author:Steven Magee

“Love is the reason we grieve darling...and love is what will bring you back," Lindsay Gibson, Just Be”

Trauma Ptsd Quotes Pregnancy Loss Postpartum Depression

Book:Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me To Surrender

Source: Just Be: How My Stillborn Son Taught Me To Surrender

“There is hope in knowing this about postpartum depression: You are not the only one to experience this confining, crazy making inner chaos within yourself.”

Hope Mental Health Wellness Inner Self Wellness Lifestyle Postpartum Depression Crazy Making

Book:Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

Source: Breaking the Grip of Postpartum Depression: Walk Toward Wellness with Real Facts, Real Stories, and a Real God

“Apparently, as long as I continue to feed my children, there’s nothing wrong with me. A functional mom is one who can change a diaper and remember bedtimes. I’m not falling apart, so I’m fine.”

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Book:Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling

Source: Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling

“After all, family dynamics aren’t independent clusters of choice and consequence, but rather a tapestry of intricately woven threads of action and reaction, passing over and under each other, knotting together time, emotion, and experience as one.”

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Book:The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”

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Author:Richard Codey

“I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.”

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Author:Mika Brzezinski

“Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.”

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Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.”

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Author:Peter Eisenman

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

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Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?”

Source: Extra Innings: A Memoir

“The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.”

Important Understanding Perspective Scary Priorities Frightening Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Brooke Shields

“Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.”

People Problem Asks Sides Common Patient Physicians Both Sides Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Jose Gonzalez

“When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.”

Understanding Community Support Study Clear Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Ariel Gore