Even when we were on our own custom-made roads to
recovery (and discovery), we wouldn't trade it for the world. Here were
are, Carolyn Brink and Kelly Nordstrom. No, we're not doctors and we
don't pretend to be. Besides, we wouldn't look good in white lab coats.
We're just two average moms, both of us standing under the umbrella of
postpartum depression, but with two completely separate stories.
That's the thing about PPD. You can wear the
nametag, "Hello My Name Is
PPD Survivor", but the stories will always be separate and unique. Life
is like that. We each have our own admission ticket with our own
characters, plot, and storyline. How boring would it be if we all
shared the exact story? "Oh, you survived PPD? Me too."
That would be it. That would be the entire
conversation, because there
would be nothing left to share. The clinical definition would say it
all. But we're not walking textbooks. We are women with emotions,
childhood blueprints, and life experiences. That unique story is what
makes us beautiful.
This is a peer-to-peer website created for and by
postpartum sufferers and survivors. We are here as a supplement to
whatever you're doing to take care of yourself, be it medication,
meditation, psychotherapy, exercise and nutrition, aromatherapy, or
electroshock therapy. We are here to support you through your
challenging journey and celebrate with you when you are healed. There
are no experts here and if you happen to be one, then please leave your
title at the door and join us as a peer. While you are the only one
living your unique journey through your own experience with PPD,
psychosis or PPDOCD you are not alone.
Thank you and be well!
Hi there, Thanks for
visiting our website. I am a two-time survivor of
PPD and I wear that title like a badge of honour. Going through
post-partum depression was hard enough the first time. After my son
Zachary was born it was close to six months (3 hospitalizations, 11
electroshock therapy treatments and one near commitment by the state of
Virginia) before I was even on the path to recovery - and at the very
beginning of it at that! But I came through it and my husband and I
decided to try again. Our son Joshua was born almost 4 years later and
his birth was eventful to say the least. He was in the NICU for 6 weeks
and came very close to dying. Needless to say, PPD struck again, hard
and fast, after he got out of intensive care. So, that's me in a
nutshell, I haven't seen it all, but I have seen a lot and I'm
committed to helping other women who have gone or are going through
what I did. I hope you find the site helpful! 
First of all,
I'm so glad you're here. This is a community I longed for
when I was suffering in silence, feeling incredibly isolated and alone.
Here at this site, you do not have to pretend to be anything other than
who you are. You are welcomed with open arms. I'm a married mother of
two girls, ages nine (Parker) and seven (Paige), and it still freaks me
out sometimes to realize I'm the Big Dog in charge of their lives. I
was never diagnosed with PPD because I never told anyone. But something
about having terrifying, intrusive thoughts/images and considering
suicide indicate that I'm a survivor of postpartum OCD. My choice
was to heal without medication, but recommend that everyone consider
all routes of recovery, including medication. Heal yourself, heal the
world! 
