A mum has opened up about her experience of postpartum depression and psychosis in a bid to encourage others to ask for help, while showing the need for mother and baby mental health units in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK which has no dedicated in-patient service for women with postpartum mental health issues. Such units admit mothers with their babies so they can be with them. "It got to the point where I was extremely suicidal and was about to take my own life. From March until June, I was on that medication and nothing was getting better. At the end of June, because I was so suicidal they brought me into hospital.
"The staff were absolutely brilliant, they were lovely and worked well with what they had, but that is not a place for a woman who just gave birth to be." Due to the current lack of mother and baby mental health units in Northern Ireland, Pamela said many new mums may try and suffer through their postpartum mental health issues due to the fear of being separated from their babies.
"I just think people need to hear somebody who has been through it to tell them it's okay, that you can get help and you won't get your kids taken off you, because I was scared of that too.
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