The motherload : episodes from the brink of motherhood

Hoover, Sarah2025

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Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life she'd imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctors - a stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no joy. Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. With the help of a doctor's diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experience - she was drowning in postpartum depression - and that she wasn't a bad mother or a failed woman.