Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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I say to them, this is the hard thing, yeah?
When you're going through depression yourself, the organ that you need to use to think is actually malfunctioning.
It's hard for you to see it.
It's hard to reach out and say help.
All the depressive cases I've seen is because the partner was worried.
The mom was worried.
So I say to the family, look around.
Does your partner look different?
Are they saying different things?
What are they doing?
What are they not doing?
What do they used to do that they're not doing now?
Yeah.
Because a woman, even in that stage, there's still that pull to the baby.
I need to look after the baby.
Mm-hmm.
and I feel so guilty that I can't do it.
That pull, it's phenomenal, this biological wiring.
That pull is still there towards the baby.
So a woman might still be wanting to do things, but is finding it tremendously hard.