Postnatal Depression (Postpartum Depression)

You have brought a child into the world. Something that nature intended as one of the most powerful moments there is. And yet you feel — nothing. Or worse: you feel a heaviness that overlays everything. The joy that everyone expects from you does not come. Instead there is emptiness. Exhaustion that goes beyond the ordinary. Tears without any discernible reason. The feeling of standing in a fog while everyone around you is celebrating.

Medicine explains postnatal depression through the massive drop in hormones after birth — oestrogen and progesterone fall drastically, the body is in a state of exception. This is real, and it matters. But the question that reaches deeper is: Why does your system respond to this transition with such darkness? What is happening in you that goes beyond hormones?