Untold Stories
So, this started as an Instagram caption before I realized there was no way I was going to be able to consolidate my thoughts down to that character limit. I have been absolutely engrossed in the Lindsay Clancy trial for weeks now. It is devastating. It is heart-breaking. It is also triggering. Like so many other women, it brings me right back to my own experiences after our daughters were born - the postpartum depression, anxiety, and some preexisting OCD that got kicked into overdrive after Ellie was born. I keep thinking about the prosecution saying in their closing statements about a video of the family, “if we asked you, pick out the woman who is depressed, pick out the woman who wants to kill herself…You couldn’t pick her out. She’s completely calm. All her behaviors are typical and normal.” And yeah, that’s actually the whole point. Every day parents power through debilitating mental health symptoms. We caffeinate and carry on because diapers still need to be changed, kids ...
