Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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You should be...
Yeah.
Self-sacrificing because it's Western society.
It's child-centered.
We're centered.
The baby is the most important thing.
What you're going through, put it away.
You're stressed.
It's your hormones, right?
But there's this...
ambivalence that happens for women.
Adolescents are allowed to go through it.
They slam doors, they go off and do their thing, and you're like, they're just being a teenager.
Moms, put it away.
Like, you need to show up.
Alexandra Sachs called it this normal ambivalence.
It's a normal developmental phase.
So when I see people, they see me, they, you know, they're referred by their GP.
The GP says, oh, you know, this woman's depressed, or the obstetrician says she's a bit stressed.
I meet them and I'm like, girl, have you heard of the term mattresses?