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Louise Thompson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
741 total appearances

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Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

So it's like that time, even if it's kind of like half an hour at the end of the day, where I know that I'm like downloading all of the day and it's moving into the right memory boxes.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

in my brain.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And also you do still get that little hint of dopamine that you need to keep you going and keep you smiling because you're kind of putting something together.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And so you're building something.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

The dissociation is they're like, I'm so tired and overworked.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Like, please, can you just turn the heat down a little bit?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Like, I feel like a computer or a robot sometimes that's just overheating.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And then I'm like, I even had the... People are going to think I'm completely crazy now.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

But the thought of like, well, are we all actually just turning into robots?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Like, why are we...

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

doing this to ourselves.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

We're treating ourselves like machines that never need like powering down, like laptops now, like I never turn it off.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I'm never like shut down and reset.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

What are we doing?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

What are we doing?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

What are we doing?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

So quite, I'll tell you who I lean on is I'm, me and Rowan are polar opposites.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Right.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

So he does not get carried away with things.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

He's slow.