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I’m all about Canada’s Globe and Mail today. Check out this good article about PPD:
The new prenatal exam: Are you blue?
liz | 4:11 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
That is a cute baby and it is fine to acknowledge that a normal woman may experience severe depression after childbirth in our society where raising children is falsely portrayed as only being hard work if your child is mentally ill. Those of us who say post partum depression is not mental illness are not saying it doesn’t exist, we’re saying it’s understandable in our society. Remember Friedan, remember the Feminine Mystique, remember the Women’s Movement.
That’s cute, but is that baby as cute as this?
http://tinyurl.com/2fcjlc
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