“I could just let go.”
Rosanna Breaux cast the intrusive thought from her mind and tightened her grip on the steering wheel.
Glancing in the mirror at her newborn twins in the backseat, she reminded herself that the thoughts weren’t hers—they belonged to the postpartum depression.
As a clinical psychologist, she had known all the symptoms and warning signs and the possibility that she could be affected. She knew all the healthy coping mechanisms, too.
That didn’t make the experience any less distressing.
“I just was empathizing so much with the people who experience this and don’t know what it is or feel like something’s wrong with them for having those thoughts,” Breaux told The Epoch Times….