www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/10/adele-cover-story
I'm not sure how to make it a link but there's an interview in Vanity Fair with Adele and in it she talks about PND. Reading it, I just thought isn't that just what everyone feels like? I don't know if it's because she's not talking about the whole experience or if she actually thinks what she said equates to PND. Surely every parent has moments every day where they wish for their own space to do what they want? I love my daughter so much but still wish every day I had some freedom to do something totally different. Taking one afternoon a week or herself, that's hardly unusual. I don't get that myself, hardly get any time away from my child, but the way she's said it is like it is something exceptional that needed to be done.
I just feel like instead of normalising that experience as a mother, it labels it as abnormal and something that needs to be treated.
I'm not saying she didn't have it before anyone jumps on that, obviously Adele and her doctors know better than me but I feel the portrayal in the article might make mums who are struggling with the usual things feel like there's something wrong with them.
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Adele on postnatal depression
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flamencina · 01/11/2016 14:30
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