The mom at My Journey Through Postpartum Depression shares a letter she sent to a friend about her PPD. Here's a highlight:

"I constantly was trying to be super mom, and in my head I was thinking that a super perfect mom/wife/friend/daughter/sister/etc. was possible, and I was constantly beating myself up for not being 'perfect' enough. I never wanted to think that I would have PPD, I think I was in denial for awhile. I was passing it off as baby blues and I was waiting for it to pass, but then I realized it wasn't."

The mom at Caffeinated Love compares herself to Brooke Shields. Cute.

A great post from Pregnancy.com from a social worker who didn't know she had postpartum depression. Don't feel bad if you didn't recognize that you had postpartum depression. Even people who know all about it and educate others don't recognize it when it happens to them, including nurses, pediatricians, social workers, etc. Seriously. This is just more proof of what a crazy illness it is that it makes us so crazy we don't know we're crazy. 🙂