‘How antenatal depression made me lose my identity’

In this series of Body Language visual essays, women talk about their most personal reproductive health issues and problems. Maternal mental illness affects 1 in 5 women and develops during or after pregnancy. Here, one woman speaks about her experience with antenatal depression. Not only did she lose her own identity but she felt she was “a crap mum before she was a mum”. After speaking to her doctors, she found the support she so desperately needed.
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