Amanda2 made an Instagram friend who faced the same challenges.
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Interviewer: So Instagram was a good for you?
Yeah. I remember I searched #postpartumpsychosis, this is so funny, I found a girl who lives in Australia who posted a story a whole year prior to my getting sick and she posted a big story, you know, on Instagram a picture and a story about her experience of postpartum psychosis and so then I private messaged her. I mean, I still talk to her. It’s so funny because I don’t know her, but she was such a huge support during and still. We always check in with each other.
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