Thank you Lilli, just received it, haven't read it yet but I'm sure it'll be very helpful.
Thank you again
Carla xx

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I have attached a few articles if they are of any help.

You need to think about socioeconomics, predisposing factors, past history (either themselves or mother etc).

The new CEMACH report is good to look at, as it DOH and NICE guidelines.

I'll add to if I think of anymore

Attached Files

	Dynamics PND.pdf (99.2 KB, 5 views)
	Health services PND.pdf (50.8 KB, 3 views)
	socioeconomics PND.pdf (89.5 KB, 5 views)

Hi Sassy - hope you don't mind but I've 'borrowed' your links for this subject too! Have final psychology essay to write on this, so they'll be v. useful. Thanks so much for posting them!! xx

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Your more than welcome to use them. The more the merrier

Have you considered checking out the mind website and the royal college of psychiatrists, as they often produce information leaflets on a range of mental health problems. I sometimes use "Bob the psychiatric nurse" which has links to many other web sites.

The mind website is very good. I used a quote of their site for a presentation I did about depression in and around pregnancy. It made me almost cry though when I did my presentation
Luckily for me, my tutor was touched by the fact that this subject was one I cared a great deal for and still gave me a super mark

"I didn’t tell anyone I was feeling low. I didn’t want to admit I wasn’t the ‘supermum’ I hoped I’d be and I felt ashamed I couldn’t cope. But if someone had given me the chance, I’d have poured my heart out. I wish I’d had that opportunity." (Kelly, 32)

http://www.mind.org.uk/News+policy+a...MindWeek06.htm


Thats the quote. I know some people thought I was barmy, but this quote just summed it up. So many women suffer with this illness yet are afraid to be honest about it incase they get their baby taken from them or people judge them. It makes me very sad

that quote is so true sassy,

i suffered with severe PND after tobey. Thought if i showed the slightest sign of struggling everyone would see me as being an unfit mother!!

I hid it so well (my friend and chap split up after the birth of their 2nd child when she had PND so i was determined not to suffer incase the same thing happened to us!!) and sailed through the questionaire from the health visitor with a near perfect score.

it all came to a head 3 months after tobey arived and i took a massive overdose. richard just found me in time and at hospital they warned him my chances weren't good.

i had a week in hospital and came back home having not seen a single psychologist/specialist and no medication or anything. it took my mum a month to get doctors to do owt with me and it was a wonderful gp who had suffered PND quite bad herself that eventually sorted me out.

it's 3yr next month since i was in hospital. i'm no longer on medication, i finished counselling in january (this itself took 2yrs to get but helped immensley) and i'm in a better place than i've ever been.

this is my reason for doing midwifery now. it is something i've always wanted to do and after everything i've been through i value life a lot more. i don't want to sit back when i'm old and know i never tried the things i wanted to.

there you go, thats my account of PND. it's took along time to be able to talk about it but now i find it easier to talk about it than ignore it (thats the counselling that taught me that!!)

i can't regret what i did, it wasn't a cry for help at that point i really did want to leave and believed richard and the boys would be better off without me, the whole experience has taught me alot about myself and i believe in a way made me a happier person now. i do however regret what i put my family through, especially richard (he's had the hardest time dealing with it i think!!).

anyway can't live in the past just learn from it x

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Lilli
I had a tear in my eye and goose pimples all over my body whilst reading that. I'm so glad that you've come out the other side and are following your dream. You and your family must be so proud of your achievements, you'll make a fab Midwife xxx

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cheers for that carla x

looking back at things now it seems like so long ago and kind of like a different person!!
they say things happen for a reason and it certainly made me re evaluate my life and make changes, so not all bad!!

richards fantastic but still worries if i have a day when i'm a bit pigged off but i guess he will be and i can't blame him for it. you're right he is so proud and i know he'll be front row at graduation with a big smile and a tear in his eye x

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