We know that adolescents get depression.
We also know that adolescents are a lot more likely to get depressed than pre-adolescents.
And, we know that pregnancy is associated with a higher risk for depression both during the pregnancy itself, and at least three months following.
This blog post is part of a series entitled Real Lives, Real Stories: Personal Experiences With Mental Illness.
“So Mom, we should do something fun this summer, just the two of us,” my daughter remarked. We had just listened to our neighbor tell us how he and his son had visited as many baseball parks as they could in two weeks.