Postpartum psychosis is a rare mental health emergency that occurs in some women after childbirth. Author Laura Dockrill shares her journey and her latest children's book, 'GRAY.'
Postpartum psychosis affects only 1 or 2 per 1,000 women and requires immediate hospitalization and treatment.
For Laura Dockrill, a respected English author and performance poet, overcoming postpartum psychosis offered valuable insight into the importance of accepting all emotions without judgment and being prepared for life’s “gray” days.birth of my son, Jet, I was hit, out of the blue, with a debilitating mental illness called postpartum psychosis . I had never experienced mental illness before, and my family and I were completely thrown upside-down by it.
Recovery came when I accepted the illness and where I was at that point in my life; then, I began to see gray as a nuanced and sophisticated color, a color that was soft and gentle—protective, even. It is a color I once calledcolor. Lauren Child has done such an incredible job of celebrating that color and the characters in the book; I have adored working with her on this special book.The adult voice in the story validates that “It’s OK to feel gray. You don’t have to be bright every day.
I treat a gray day like a day of food poisoning or a cold. I don’t pretend I’m OK. This usually does the trick! I don’t hide that from my son because I want to normalize this for him: It’s a good thing to take care of ourselves.
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