Post Partum Depression Quotes

“I spoke to this woman in the supermaket," Charlie barges in again, "and I said I was tired and finding it hard, and she said, 'Ah, you wouldn't change it thoug, would you?' and I had to of course say no. But I wanted to say yes. I wanted to say, 'Actually, Brenda, I would.' I want to go back sometimes. And I do, Noelle. I don't want to be Charlie of then." Charlie bursts into sobs.”
― Lia Louis, Eight Perfect Hours

“You’d see me become the truth of me. You’d see that I had nothing left, and everything I just told you about how I felt was a lie. But, I wanted that lie so badly to be true. I wanted everything I spoke of to be true for me, but it wasn’t because within myself I was slowly and painfully dying from depression.”
― Charlotte Cooper