Summary:
Actress Brooke Shields recently wrote a book chronicling how the birth of the child she tried so hard to conceive pulled her into a crippling depression. Postpartum depression is talked about more frequently in this day and age, but rarely do women say having a child helped lift their depression. In this article one mother who experienced depression and took medication for it for several years does just that.

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With all the talk of how pregnancy throws a woman"s hormones out of wack and turns her into an evil creature that continues to suffer miserably postpartum, no wonder many women are afraid of having children. I used to be one of them, until a little blonde-haired blue-eyed little girl changed my outlook on life.

I spent most of my 20s on anti-depressant medication. The stress of trying to keep up with my college studies, strained personal relationships and working 30 plus hours a week at two different jobs landed me in psychiatric facility when I was 19. The healing came fairly quickly, the Prozac even quicker. Still, I felt lost and wondered what my purpose in life was.

I knew I wanted to be a writer. As an only child, books and words were often all I had and they comforted me. I told myself and others I wasn"t sure if having children would ever be an option for me. I didn"t think I was mentally stable enough to handle the pressure of child rearing and worried I would pass my mental illness onto any I might choose to have.

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