Are you looking for place to read full E-Books without downloading? Here you can read The Darkest Days of My Life: Stories of Postpartum Depression. You can also read and download new and old full E-Books. Enjoy and relax Reading full The Darkest Days of My Life: Stories of Postpartum Depression Books online. .GET FREE ACCESS TO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK
Having a baby is surely one of the pinnacle events of a woman's life, full of joy, serenity, and contentment--or so society tells a new mother, who thus finds herself ill-prepared for the exhaustion, boredom, and isolation that can follow childbirth. The resulting depression--how it is experienced, and how it might be relieved--is the subject of Natasha Mauthner's insightful and compassionate book, which recounts the stories of new mothers caught between a cultural ideal and a far more complex reality.In Mauthner's interviews with thirty-five new mothers in Britain and America, we see how women contend with images of motherhood as a state of bliss for everyone but themselves. The British women tend to view their depression as a personal failure of strength; American women, as a result of hormonal fluctuation. But all vividly describe a similar state of paralysis and loneliness, with alternating love, resentment, and guilt toward their babies.Most usefully, these women reveal the positi
