In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and mother-in-law, Chelle, to talk about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter. Chelle talks about how she dealt with the grief of losing her daughter and how she was able to come to terms with the fact that she was a terrible mother.
00:01:16.500negative way so because I know also you talk about how like when you finally did talk about it
00:01:22.420explain to me the uh the complexity of and I asked this from the perspective of having so many
00:01:28.720friends who've gone through postpartum depression the idea that anybody would think that I would
00:01:36.060just give away my child and be okay with it is heartbreaking couldn't be further from the truth
00:01:43.900You know, as you said, I was struggling with mental health and anxiety and the postpartum and having to act my way through it and just feeling like I completely lost myself.
00:02:04.400misconception is that I have been in the past forced into treatment when in fact I have been the
00:02:12.460one who has sought it out who who was saying I desperately need help I don't I you know I know
00:02:22.440this is gonna look terrible but I am I am I cannot live like this anymore I have an incredible
00:02:29.260relationship with her i go i travel as much as as i can i see her i do spend a lot of time on
00:02:36.680facetime with her um but we talk about really deep things so we have a really intense incredible
00:02:45.280um bond and i'm very grateful for that and i i know that she knows that she has two parents who
00:02:56.120do anything in the world to make sure that she is happy and healthy mentally emotionally physically
00:03:03.560spiritually um and she in no way feels abandoned okay so doug mpa he calls me um and i think this0.81
00:03:12.120is his sentiment in the chat she's a quitter and a loser and to some extent doug mpa is right she0.95
00:03:18.360is a quitter she is a loser she quit being a mother but i gotta play devil's advocate today0.99
00:03:24.200Wouldn't the world be a better place if more women quit being mothers?1.00
00:03:28.840We talk a lot on this show about sexual market value.1.00