The birth of her only child is
not even a blur to Carolyn Brink. She doesn't remember it at all.
In fact, she doesn't remember the first few months
of Zachary's life. She was trapped in the depths of postpartum
depression, a perilous condition made even more dangerous by an adverse
reaction to the drugs prescribed to help her. She recalls almost
nothing from that period except this:
" I came close to not being around," she said. "I about killed myself."
Brink's story has a happy ending. She survived,
her baby is fine and
her family is strong. More than two years later, she feels back to her
old self. A family friend recently published a book about her ordeal
("Mommies Cry Too: A Painful & Triumphant Story of Postpartum
Depression," by Carol S. Harcarik); reading it, Brink said, is "like
reading a story that happened to someone else."
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