Participating in an online support group was not helpful for Kaitlyn.

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I joined like a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder group online. Which made me feel worse because I just felt like more like isolated and lonely pretty much. Because the internet’s just for lonely, sad people. And there’s nothing in the area that you could attend in person. Like to give you a reference point like I live two hours from Saskatoon, or Regina.

I didn’t feel like that really helped. And it feels so silly that you know, I like didn’t go to that appointment, and then I didn’t like the online group. And I just feel like I blame myself for not trying harder to pursue any of these options, but it just like – it’s obviously not what I needed. Like I needed some sort of help, and I just wasn’t getting it. And I don’t know if I was capable of – I really just needed someone to advocate for me on my behalf, and there was just no one there to do it. So the online group was fine to like “[unintelligible [00:22:04] a lot, and I learned a couple things, but really like it didn’t alleviate any of my issues at all. If anything it just made me feel guilty because some of these women like really had gotten to the point where they were like in crisis, or recently like attempted suicide. Like all of these things that were like, just made me feel like I didn’t try to do that. So like it can’t be that bad right? Which looking back on it that’s such a sad way to interpret that you know?

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