The Current19:35How a postpartum depression pill could provide new hope for struggling mothers
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Amy Bingham had struggled with depression for years, but had never heard about postpartum depression. When she had her first child Benjamin in 2018, she was overwhelmed with anxiety and insomnia, and had a hard time bonding with him.
“Everything was just a lot more powerful and a lot darker than I thought it would be,” she told The Current guest host Anthony Germain.
It took a long time for the new mom from Burlington, N.C., to share how she was feeling because she didn’t want to be seen as an “unfit mother.”
