Posted by Anastasia --Previous Message-- I am having a morality boost right now and am going to all out challenge this culture's negative attitudes toward people with mental disorders and women who have them who many in our culture say are unfit as parents simply because of that alone. Up until now, I am all alone and the women that I have talked to about losing their kids through Protective Services or custody with the other parent, don't seem to want to talk about it. Well, I want to do more than just talk about it. I am so angry about what I have seen done to me and my son and even the other women I have run into who are afraid to talk about it. I want to challenge our legal system and our mental health system- eventually. Something that will start with talking to and being heard by the right people. I am not suprised that there were no responses to your message when I first got on here. But there are a lot of us out here. I admire your reaching out like this and exposing yourself by setting up a website. So far, the women that I've met who are experiencing this, would rather lurk in the shadows and pretend like it doesn't bother them. Email me. Anastasia042002@Hotmail.com I'm there for you. Shelly
on March 26, 2004, 6:21 pm, in reply to "lost my child custody due to depression"
24.221.73.69
: I suffered post partum depression during
: pregnancy and after. After childbirth I
: was put on Prozac. I felt so much better.
: Unfortuanetly the baby's father was very
: unsympathetic towards me, kicked me out of
: the house when she was 6 weeks old. I had
: to go live with my grandmother. I got a
: job.
: I lost custody because I was taking prozac as
: was seen as unfit because I was depressed.
: This was 6 years ago and I have not been
: majorly depressed since but the pain of
: being stimitized is still there
:
I lost custody of my son three years ago due to somewhere between postpartum-depression and post-partum psychosis. I am not suprised that your child's father was the way he was towards you. I have done some research on post-partum depression put out by an organization called Depression After Delivery. And they said that in their research they have found that situational stressors will aggravate post-partum depression. I was living with the father of my son for the first few months of his life and those few months were hell on earth. My depression definitely got worse. When I left him and moved back in with my mother, with my baby, my depression lifted but for some unknown, really stupid reason, I felt an estremely strong urge to move back in with him and save our relationship. Things started to get worse again, and in time, instead of my therapist helping me, she called Children's Protective Services, who urged my ex to take custody of my son which leads me to where I have been ever since.
Call me. 248-544-2538.
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