Not a good Newsweek this week
Okay, so I'm already having a rough time with depression and beating myself up all the time. I normally love to read Newsweek. Its a great magazine. It lets me keep up with the really big stuff without having to read the front page of the Merc. But this week's issue just seemed to suck. First there's the comment that children who have mothers who suffer depression have more than their fair share of deliquency and psychotic episodes due to "receiving poor parenting." [Emphasis mine] Great. Just what I wanted to hear. My biggest fears are accurate. I am being a rotten mother.
A couple of articles later we see the comment that low energy children come from low energy parents. And that they learn that being sedentary is normal and then suffer higher rates of obestity, early onset type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and etc. Okay, so now not only am I a poor parent 'cause I suffer from depression, but the side effects of said depression (and a really tiring pregnancy) is going to make the quality of Ike life just horrible.
You know, when the depression is at its worst, in my darkest moments, I can very nearly understand Andrea Yates.
And you know, that scares the living shit outta me.
A couple of articles later we see the comment that low energy children come from low energy parents. And that they learn that being sedentary is normal and then suffer higher rates of obestity, early onset type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and etc. Okay, so now not only am I a poor parent 'cause I suffer from depression, but the side effects of said depression (and a really tiring pregnancy) is going to make the quality of Ike life just horrible.
You know, when the depression is at its worst, in my darkest moments, I can very nearly understand Andrea Yates.
And you know, that scares the living shit outta me.
