Good-Better-Thankful

Things are good. As someone who has survived severe postpartum depression, I rarely say that. I haven't said it more than a handful of times since Cole was born. There is always a sense, no matter how well I am (which is very, very well right now, thanks for asking), that things could plummet at any moment into cloudy bleakville. Recovery from PPD is much like recovery from an addiction. You get better, and better, you work at it, but you are never, ever fully recovered. And that is very hard. I just have to live with it. And living is better than the alternative.

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