Maternal Mental Health Quotes

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

All mothers are slightly insane.

We need to do more to raise awareness of perinatal mental health illness and address the stigma that still surrounds it in our society.

I wish new moms wouldn't be burdened with the pressure to get back into pre-baby shape so quickly.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

I went back to work about six weeks after I gave birth, which was crazy early, and experienced some pretty bad postpartum depression but didn't know it at the time.

In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

Working mums and stay-at-home mums get a tough time. You're damned if you do and damned if you son't. You just have to do what's right for you and not listen to what the mummy brigade say.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

One in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy, or in the year after giving birth. It can affect any woman. And it can be devastating.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

I feel like there's so much focus on the woman when you're pregnant, and it's amazing and beautiful and everybody's taking care of you, and then you have the baby and nobody's interested. And yet you are the most vulnerable you've been - I mean, I'm speaking on my own experience. Other women may have very different experiences.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.

I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

There is enormous shame around depression of any kind and at any time. And there's enormous social stigma attached to it, which we need to go on fighting. But I think that the sense of depression during pregnancy and early motherhood has been particularly stigmatized, that people especially feel that should be the happiest time of your life.

We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

I talk about postpartum depression and all these things I don't hear a lot of women talking about on TV.