Comments on: Maple Leaf Rag http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/10/23/maple-leaf-rag/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dmac http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/10/23/maple-leaf-rag/comment-page-1/#comment-2667 dmac Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:31:22 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/10/23/maple-leaf-rag/#comment-2667 That's cute, but is that baby as cute as this? http://tinyurl.com/2fcjlc That’s cute, but is that baby as cute as this?

http://tinyurl.com/2fcjlc

]]> By: Sally http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/10/23/maple-leaf-rag/comment-page-1/#comment-2666 Sally Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:32:26 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/10/23/maple-leaf-rag/#comment-2666 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 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.

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