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Guilt
Mar 12, 2003 11:08:32 GMT
Post by Zoe on Mar 12, 2003 11:08:32 GMT
Is there anyone who understands what it feels like to have had such severe PND that they aborted a pregnancy a few months after giving birth?
I have felt nothing but remorse ever since, and the guilt is affecting me badly.
The baby would have been due in a few weeks, and i'm having awful dreams about what i've done.
My partner doesn't really listen, as he was keen for me to get it done in the first place, and i feel isolated.
Zoe
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lizzy
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Guilt
Mar 13, 2003 14:19:21 GMT
Post by lizzy on Mar 13, 2003 14:19:21 GMT
I cant imagine how you must be feeling but I do understand about guilt. It sounds like you had a really hard decision to make and not much support along the way. I have had PND from the day my child was born and although I love him dearly I also wonder about the effects of having more children in the future. It is only now that I have started to get the help I need.
I hope that you can find someone to talk to because feeling alone in this just makes it harder. There are so many women out there who feel like this, you are not the only one and I am sure that in time you will come to terms with your decision.
Good luck
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Guilt
Mar 14, 2003 12:49:15 GMT
Post by Gillian on Mar 14, 2003 12:49:15 GMT
Hi my name is Gillian and I am a final year university student and I am interested in creating a piece of verbatim theatre based on the lives of women suffering from PND. All the research would be carried out in the strictest confidence of which you willl have a written guarantee. You will be able to proof read the final draft and any material you then wish not to be included can and will be extracted. I feel this is an area that many people do not understand and feel that women who suffer this illness are given unfair representation. It is not seen as an illness and seen as something which the woman can control and choses to do. I would like to show the real story of PND and I need your help. If you live in the London or Greater london area and would be interested in helping me then please email me at ; gillianlloyd@yahoo.co.uk I would be so very grateful, you will have the chance to speak for yourself, and for all the unheard women suffering in silence scared of the reaction they will face, the guilt and the prejudice. Please take this opportunity to have your say. Thankyou and regardless of whether you contact me or not, I pray that you will find some benefit and comfort from this site and that your situation will improve lots of luck , xGillian x ;D
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Guilt
Mar 14, 2003 21:38:59 GMT
Post by sharon on Mar 14, 2003 21:38:59 GMT
I know how you feel I have a little boy who is 17 months old and I started getting depression about a month after he was born, when he was four months old I aborted a pregnacny I was so depressed i didn't feel I could cope my partner thought it was the best thing to and I just went along but I have felt guilty ever since.
I hope this message helps you to not feel so alone there are people who understand and have been through what you are going through
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Guilt
Mar 21, 2003 12:09:36 GMT
Post by Zoe on Mar 21, 2003 12:09:36 GMT
Sharon,
Thanks for your message of 14th March,i thought i was the only one out there.
I cant talk about the abortion to anyone and i think i'm going mad, do you feel like that?
I'm sorry for your loss.
Zoe
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Guilt
Mar 25, 2003 17:48:31 GMT
Post by julianne on Mar 25, 2003 17:48:31 GMT
Hello Zoe I understand how you feel. People keep asking me whether I'm going to have anymore children and I feel exactly the way you do. There is no way that I could go through PND again. I know it's easy for me to say but try not to feel gulity about the abortion. I would have done exactly the same thing. Keep smiling Julianne
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