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Emma Jane Unsworth by Alex Lake
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To mark Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week we talk to the novelist and screenwriter about her new memoir, After the Storm. With searingly brutal honesty, Emma unpacks her son s traumatic birth, the PND that almost destroyed everything, and why the myth of women having it all is making us sick
Postnatal depression is not supposed to make you laugh but brutal honesty and dazzling humour are part of Emma Jane Unsworth’s award-winning literary arsenal. Weapons she deploys so brilliantly and to devastating effect in
Emma Jane Unsworth
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I’d always imagined having two kids. Not in some clichéd 2.4 children way, but rather because I come from a family of four and my siblings were such an intrinsic part of my childhood I wanted to give that gift to my son.
However, when my husband and I started talking about the possibility of a second child, a huge factor in our decision was the fact I suffered awful postnatal depression (PND) after the birth of our son in 2016, and I was absolutely terrified about it coming back. By this point our son was three; we’d just got our sleep back, we felt like a (mostly) functional and portable little unit, and things were generally on an even keel. It was stupid, surely, to throw a curveball into that new-found calm? PND remains the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. It struck when my son was a month or so old, and lasted for about a year. I was lost in a dark wilderness, isolated from everyone I knew and loved, including my husband. Inc
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