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Sep 2021
22m 34s

And They Said We'd Be Glowing

Bbc Radio 4
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<p>Laura Dockrill describes her frightening experience of post partum psychosis after giving birth to her son. She calls for a wider conversation about risks to parental mental health and for help to be open to everyone. "This almost invisible illness was an assassin. An apparition that nobody else could see." "Silence only inflames the symptoms, the stigma ... Show More
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