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Shelby
"When I was a teenager I fell pregnant with my eldest. And I've always struggled to get the support I've needed. I've always been pushed from pillar to post or have not been able to get the help because I'm not classed as severe. Because I'm not a danger to myself, even though I've been struggling. When I had my eldest I was 20. And I had just moved to a new town, so I was isolated. And not only that, there weren’t the support groups out there for postnatal depression, which meant that I struggled with him. And then it was just a downward spiral where I just had to stop working...things just got overwhelming."