WHEN depression HOLDS YOU BACK

For months, you waited for the arrival of your baby. Sometimes you were even impatient. In those last weeks before his birth it was difficult walking past the nursery without going in and hauling out the neatly folded baby clothes and stroking them a little.

And then, finally, you were holding him for the first time. It felt like heaven.

But as the hours went by, a feeling of uncertainty washed over you. Two weeks on you were not only dead tired, you were also dead scared. Scared to leave the four walls of your house, even perhaps the four walls of your room. You cried more