On the program It starts today, Marie recounted her postpartum depression which led her to attempt suicide… a moving testimony.
For many women and men, parenthood is not a time of happiness and infinite love. Indeed, postpartum depression is more common than you might think: it affects 30% of mothers every year. It is characterized by: intense fatigue, uncontrollable crying, poor stress management but above all difficulties with parenting. Postpartum depression can present serious forms, the parent does not feel love for his child, he no longer feels any emotion, and begins to have suicidal thoughts.
This is what happened to Marie, affected by postpartum depression. She testified in the show It starts today, presented by Faustine Bollaert on France 2. Marie spoke in particular about her suicide attempt and how she was narrowly saved by her husband. A moving testimony to a period that turned his life upside down.
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A postpartum depression that destroyed her
Faced with Faustine Bollaert, Marie and her spouse recount this dramatic period they experienced: “I suffered from insomnia, I no longer slept at night. I was like a robot, an automaton. I had no more emotions, no more anything, I had no more love for my children. Even though I knew that deep down I loved them very much, I no longer felt anything. On the night of July 12 to 13, I suffered from insomnia again…” Faustine Bollaert mentions how recent this story is for them, it was in July 2022.
She details: “When I woke up in the morning I said to myself “it has to end”, I could not any more. I took care of my children like every morning. Despite this depression, I got up every morning to take care of them. That morning, my mother-in-law sent me a message, I told those around me that I was not well, that I was depressed.
Mary continues: “My mother-in-law offered to go shopping or babysit so I could rest. I was aware of what I was doing so I asked her if she could babysit. That morning I couldn’t take it anymore, I felt like a bad mother and not being able to take care of my children anymore. She arrived at noon, she took the children, I didn’t even say goodbye to them, I was no longer myself. Marie then evokes with modesty and emotion her passage to the act: “When she took the children, I tidied up the house and took a notebook, I noted that I preferred to harm myself rather than my children and those around me. I took a first box of medicine and lay down on my bed. Her husband speaks for the first time and says that he was the one who found his semi-inconcsient wife. Coming home from work earlier than expected, he came across the note left by Marie in the kitchen…
Fortunately her husband found her in time, she says: “I woke up the next day, July 14, in the emergency room, I was aware of what I had done the day before. Before that inside me I had the impression that I was no longer loved, but then I said to myself “I will lose my children, my family, my husband, my colleagues, my job. I will lose everything because no one will understand this act.
This testimony moved Faustine Bollaert and the whole set…
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Zoé is on a work-study program, she joined the aufeminin team in September 2022, she writes for the parenting section. Committed and curious, Zoé likes to write to advance…