Category " Antenatal depression"

I want to share a personal development in my life with the desire that it may encourage you to keep on keeping on with whatever you feel is your passion or purpose in life. We all need something to motivate us when we the feel need to give it up because we feel ‘the odds’ […]

The weather changed dramatically overnight from our Indian summer into torrential rain! It didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the delegates at the 22nd International NPNR (Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research) Conference 2016 for the second day, being held in Nottingham. I enjoyed my breakfast chatting with Dr Liz Collier from Salford University. She has invited […]

I’d like to share with you my account of the second conference on the theme of my second book ‘Another Twinkle in the Eye – contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental health’, held in London on 24th May. I am grateful to the team at Salford CPD  who organised and ran it for me. Their […]

In the time I have been learning, speaking and writing about perinatal mental illness, one thread that I feel that still needs more awareness is the idea that it has impact upon only the mother. Through the power of social media and increasing awareness of mental health, we are seeing the signs of how the […]