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The Social Media Narrative of Motherhood: How the Internet Responds to Tragedy

July 3, 2016 by Miranda 2 Comments

postpartum psychosis

[This post may be triggering for some readers. YMMV.] It seems the media has been rife with stories of mothers who have harmed or fatally wounded their children this week. The social media narrative surrounding it all is about to make me crazy. A mom in Texas shot her daughters during a “family meeting” because…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: mental health, mental illness, motherhood, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, PPA, PPD, stigma, stigma fighting, things that matter, warrior moms

Why I Climb | Climb Out of the Darkness 2016

June 14, 2016 by Miranda 1 Comment

Climb Out of the Darkness Atlanta Stone Mountain

We’re FOUR DAYS AWAY from the 2016 Climb Out of the Darkness. Four days away from the third year in a row where I’ll join postpartum depression survivors, locally and globally, to raise awareness of an illness which will affect 1 in 7 moms. If you want to know why I climb, there’s little else…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: climb out of darkness, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum progress, PPA, PPD, things that matter

Depression Is…

May 10, 2016 by Miranda Leave a Comment

There’s a Facebook trending news story that was cached in my list that is absolutely breaking my heart. A mother in North Carolina reached the point of taking her own life and her children’s as well. The comments (I know, I know…don’t read them) are breaking my heart. On the one hand we have dozens and…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: maternal mental health, mental health, mental illness, motherhood, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum progress

Doing Hard Things

May 2, 2016 by Miranda Leave a Comment

I have always felt that the phrase “we can do hard things” is a little…cheesy. True, but with a side of gouda. But today I did a hard thing that I didn’t even know was going to be a hard thing until I was staring down the barrel of a panic attack as the situation…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: anxiety, depression, mental health, mental illness, motherhood, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression

#MeditateOnThis: Why Talking About Medication Matters

January 28, 2016 by Miranda 1 Comment

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I was going to come here today and whine all about the migraine I had yesterday and how now I have a migraine hangover and/or I slept really, really wrong and/or going on a Twitter rampage last night somehow tweaked my neck. There is for real a lot of whining and I’m not saying that…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: anxiety, depression, maternal mental health, mental health, mental illness, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, things that matter

Climb Out of the Darkness 2015

May 15, 2015 by Miranda 1 Comment

Last year, on the longest day of the year, I climbed a mountain. Stone Mountain, to be exact. It wasn’t Everest, but it felt like it. I thought about quitting half way up. I wanted to turn around and walk back down the mountain, content to have gone as far as I could, not caring…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: climb out of darkness, mental health, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum progress, PPA, PPD

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Climb Out of the Darkness

June 25, 2014 by Miranda 3 Comments

I will never forget the relief I felt the first time someone looked at me and said “Miranda, you’re depressed. This is depression.” In that moment, my moods, the sadness, anger, rage, all of it, had a place. Slowly, with therapy, dedication to getting better, and through the twists of fate which started me on…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: anxiety, climb out of darkness, depression, mental health, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, postpartum progress, PPA, PPD

Climb Out Of the Darkness 2014

June 10, 2014 by Miranda Leave a Comment

It’s time to Climb Out of the Darkness in Atlanta, y’all. 1 in 7 mothers will suffer from a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder. And that’s only the number of moms who actually seek help. Because of the stigma associated with mental illness, and with postpartum mental illness in particular, and because of the lack…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: mental health, mental illness, motherhood, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, PPA, PPD, things that matter

Breastfeeding and Anxiety

October 21, 2013 by Miranda Leave a Comment

Thank you for all of the support last week when I wrote about finally making the call to a therapist for help in dealing with my anxiety. It was a really tough call to make, but I know it was the right call. I think the right calls are usually the tough ones, you know?…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: anxiety, breastfeeding, breastfeeding a toddler, depression, extended breastfeeding, mental health, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, Warrior Mom Leadership Team

I Am A Face Of Mental Illness

October 4, 2013 by Miranda 31 Comments

I have a personal rule against watching the news. It fuels my anxiety and since I don’t actually like feeling anxious I avoid all things which cause me anxiety whenever I reasonably can. So the news is on my Do Not Watch list. It’s one of the only things on that list, because hey, watching TV…

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Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: anxiety, depression, don't watch the news, mental health, mental illness, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression

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