Product Description
The book serves as an inspiration for anyone suffering from or involved with a depressive illness. For health and social care professionals it is a reflective guide to learning from patients’ experiences, and the examples of positive and negative aspects of treatment can inform mental health services and policies.
"With great courage Elaine Hanzak shares the story of her battle with a rare, but potentially life-threatening illness called postpartum psychosis, describing in intimate detail the unraveling of her mind as she struggled to maintain sanity in the face of this illness that knows no boundaries and makes no distinctions between realities. She has eloquently used her own experience to educate and inform the professional community about mental illness while at the same time providing women and their families with the tools to advocate for their own medical and emotional care. Thank you, Elaine for speaking out in the hope that your very own moving story will change the tide of thinking about perinatal mood disorders and improve women’s healthcare experiences at such a pivotal time in their lives." Diana Lynn Barnes, past President, Postpartum Support International, in her foreword.
