{"id":261041,"date":"2025-07-13T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261041\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:49:11","slug":"i-lost-who-i-was-with-postnatal-depression-bristol-woman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261041\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I lost who I was with postnatal depression,’ Bristol woman says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up as part of a “big family” in the Philippines, Rachelle said she had always wanted to have “lots and lots of children”.<\/p>\n

But following the birth of her 11lb (5kg) baby girl, she was left feeling lonely, depressed and “angry at everything and everyone”.<\/p>\n

“All my habits, all my hobbies, all the things that I used to do, I lost because my entire life revolved around this tiny little being that depended on me,” Rachelle said.<\/p>\n

“We grin and bear it and say ‘we’re fine, we’re fine, everything’s fine’, but really [it’s], ‘no, we’re sleep deprived, no, it’s getting to me’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing up as part of a “big family” in the Philippines, Rachelle said she had always wanted to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-261041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}