Claire V. Watkins

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479 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 12 Sep

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’ · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

My doctors definitely describe me as having postpartum depression and I, you know, I followed their advice accordingly, but I don't

really think that's exactly what was happening.

I think I was

having a kind of an existential crisis.

I think it was like a a a spiritual confrontation with myself, having

had this child and doing something

Really like heroic.

a lot of the other stuff that I was doing in my life s sort of suddenly seemed really meaningless.

I was a really ambitious young person and I

I was striving a lot to do everything in the right way and in the right order.

Like I was a straight A student.

I did really well in school.

It helped me get out of my kind of crazy family scene.

And I was um kind of in a survival mode, I think, looking back on it, you know, using like my education and eventually my profession, like as a university professor, to get safe and even using um intimate relationships as a way of of getting safe.

And then all of that was kind of culminated in having this child and I think I was telling myself a type of um

I don't know, almost like a messianic story where like once I arrive at this place and I'm middle class and I have a husband and a child, all will be good.

And it wasn't.

And I was still myself and I still had um

I had like

deeper stuff that I I needed to confront that couldn't the you know solution wasn't outside in like external validation or or money or or prizes or prestigious jobs.

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