Benita Bensch

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342 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Working Mumma · Lost Yourself in Motherhood? How to Reclaim Who You Are Beyond Being Mum · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

I'd never got diagnosed when I talk about the black hole.

I still don't exactly know what my diagnosis would have been at that point, probably postnatal depression and anxiety, possibly postnatal depletion.

Was it burnout?

I'm not sure.

There was definitely a lot of anxiety underlying that, and I've since been diagnosed, late diagnosed with ADHD and autism.

So...

The journey since then has revealed to me all of these things that would have been adding to the picture.

But at the time, I didn't know any of it.

I didn't even have an anxiety diagnosis, even though I'd been living with anxiety for years.

And environmentally, we were in our harvest period on the farm, which is a high planting and harvest are often the highest stress periods when Adam is just not around.

I can't rely on him for help.

For weeks, months on end, it's sort of all on you.

And there's also that expectation or that realistic physical task of feeding everyone who is on the farm working and sort of just having to suck it up and get through it.

which is very difficult.

That sounds like a lot.

Oh, it is a lot.

When you think about it, when you talk about it out loud, it's like, that just sounds crazy.

In the years after that, I did learn to get more help.

But at the time, I...

It was a lot.

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