Louise Thompson

I feel like this is the beginning.

We've got six months to see what we can do.

I mean, we could get millions of signatures.

One of the next exciting things that we'd really like to do would be to get a lot of women together to do a huge photo call on College Green, which is opposite Parliament, to create some more noise.

And then really it's kind of...

conjuring up this marketing campaign just so that everybody knows and it's the education piece and I feel supported because there are some brilliant charities out there like the Birth Trauma Association who I work really closely with, the CEO Dr. Kim Thomas has been heavily involved in this space for so long and I guess they're right at the kind of like grassroots level

They're the people that have to really pick up the pieces when people's worlds fall apart.

They're the ones offering out the resources.

They're the ones with the peer-to-peer support, picking up the phone, trying to make sure that people stay alive.

And now we're going to try and tackle both ends because they're hugely underfunded.

Yeah.

It's a really good point.

You do have to live with it forever.

Like post-traumatic stress disorder is not something that you can treat.

And I've tried CBT, EMDR, exposure therapy, antidepressants, antipsychotics.

Like I might sit here, I mean, I'm blinking a lot, so that's a sign that my nervous system is in a funny place because I'm talking about it.

But I might present to somebody that's really on the other side of recovery saying,

but it is something that will sadly plague me for the rest of my life.

I suppose at its worst, it looks like...

traumatic flashbacks, which can be triggered by anything.