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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