As Mental Health Awareness Week draws to a close,a mother appeals for wider recognition of the risk factors for postnatal depression or 'baby blues'Eleven years on, I still remember the evening I decided to kill my baby daughter.
It's not something you're supposed to feel as a fresh parent with a warm, or tiny bundle in your arms. But this is how postnatal depression can twist your logic. At the time it made perfect sense. Catherine was screaming,in pain. She had colic, there was nothing I could achieve about it. whether an animal were in this much pain you'd put it out of its distress, and so why not a human?
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Source: theguardian.com