Relationships – Erin2 (clip 2)

 

Erin2's mother didn't really understand what was going on, yet she supported her with actions instead of words.

Transcript

And then for some people in my family it actually brought me a lot closer to them. Which I’m really thankful for. Like my sister, and my mother-in-law, and my husband’s sister, and his mom. They live together and once I had gone to the hospital and been like I need help. They were like you need to come here more, and make a point of like you don’t have to come here to do anything. Just come here, sit on the couch. Give me the baby. Just sit and be with people.

I found that you know, surrounding yourself with people who have that mentality of like let me just be here and help you. And like accepting that help was just really – just helpful. And my mom, I don’t think she really understood. Like she is obviously a lot older, and I don’t think it was talked a lot about in her generation, like what post-partum anxiety and depression was. So she didn’t really understand what I was going through.

She of course accepted it and gave me help with my son, but I don’t think she really understood what it was, or like the severity of what I had been going through. I think she was pretty shocked when I finally decided to go to the hospital. But I mean she just looked after my son for a week while I was in the emerge, so…

Interviewer: She supported you in her way right?

She did. In her own way she supported me just by being there. Not really necessarily like talking about it. Which again I think is kind of a generational thing, but she was there for me with actions instead of words, yeah.


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