Kristen Montgomery Breh’s Reviews > Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety > Status Update
Kristen Montgomery Breh
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“‘If you keep banging your head against the wall, you’re going to have headaches.’ I have thought of these words so many times in my now four years of motherhood in America. I have seen so many mothers banging their heads against the wall. And treating their pain - the chronic headache of their lives - with sleeping pills and antidepressants and anxiety meds and a more and more potent form of perfectionism”
— Jan 20, 2024 09:49AM
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Kristen Montgomery Breh
is on page 33 of 352
“We are consumed with doing for our children in mind and soul and body - and the result is we are so depleted that we have little of ourselves left for ourselves. And whatever anger we might otherwise feel - at society, at our husbands, at the experts that led us to this pass - is directed, also, just at ourselves. Or at the one permissible target: other mothers.”
— Jan 16, 2024 04:28AM