It took Josée-Anne five years before she had a diagnosis.
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Puis quand je suis retombée enceinte de ma deuxième, bien dans le fond, ça a recommencé tout de suite. Fait que là mon médecin de famille a dit : « Là ça suffit! Tu y vas en urgence! Tu ne peux pas rester comme ça. », et là j’ai commencé vraiment, j’ai eu un diagnostic. Ce que je n’avais pas eu en dedans de 5 ans. En tout et partout, j’étais juste à peu près 5 ans, avec les petites et tout, je n’ai jamais eu de diagnostic de rien. Il n’y a jamais personne qui s’est arrêté pour me dire : « Ok, bien attends un petit peu, tu as peut-être une maladie mentale? Ou tu as peut-être quelque chose? ».
[And when I got pregnant again with my second child, it basically started up again right away. So my family doctor said, ‘That’s enough! You need to get urgent help! You can’t stay like this.’ And that’s when things really started — I finally got a diagnosis. Something I hadn’t received in five years. All in all, it had been about five years, with the little ones and everything, and I had never received any kind of diagnosis. No one had ever taken the time to stop and say, ‘Okay, wait a second — maybe you have a mental illness? Or maybe something else is going on?’] Translation from the original French.
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