I’ve wanted to be a mom since I was a kid. I can’t explain it, I’ve just always loved babies and kids, and I have always wanted to raise a whole bunch of them.
So when my mental health started going south, I got really nervous. I started researching obsessively, looking for positive stories about moms with mental illness who could successfully manage their illness and take care of their kids at the same time.
All I found were horror stories. The internet was overflowing with reasons mentally ill women should not have babies, and maybe shouldn’t be mothers at all.
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