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10-30-2020 05:02 PM |
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Originally Posted by Buehler445
(Post 15279222)
Jesus Christ.
My wife had PPD with our first kid and of course didn’t tell me or anyone else about it until years later. Like your wife she wasn’t suicidal towards herself or the baby, just unhappy. This story horrified me. I can’t imagine how someone in our wives shoes would feel in that situation.
Congrats on the 3rd kid. Hopefully PPD doesn’t come back. It didn’t for my wife with the second kid.
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It scared the hell out of me to hear her say that she'd thought about killing herself. She'd never once talked like that before and had no issues after our first kid. She told me how she didn't feel like she was good enough and that the girls would be better off without her around and that just tore me up, still gets to me even now. She's a damn good mom and absolutely nothing has happened that those thoughts should cross her mind. When the part of you that is in control of every single function of your body starts to tell you that you're not good enough, then it's impossible to not believe it. Thankfully there are other parts of the brain telling you not to believe those other thoughts, but God damn that's just gotta be so confusing.
The brain is such an intricate and complex organ, so it makes sense that if one thing is out of whack then it sends the whole thing into a tail spin. Mental health should honestly be our number one concern, but just so few even take it serious. There are still a significant amount of people that think people need to just be happy instead of sad. It's not gonna get better until people stop associating everyone with mental health issues with negative connotations and just saying they are crazy.
Once mental health can be thought of like any other type of health problem, then we will actually see real change. The sad thing is that curing these diseases of the mind are going to be very hard and we are already behind the curve.
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