From Pain, a New Purpose. Louise Kiernan.
by Kiernan, Louise; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 25Health. Publisher: Chicago Tribune, 2003ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Adjustment (Psychology) | Family | Postpartum depression | Social action | Suicide victimsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The newspaper clipping was still in a drawer, where Joan had tucked it away when she read about the suicide of Melanie Stokes and tried to convince herself that it couldn't happen to her family, to her daughter. She pulled it out and looked for the name of Melanie's mother. A telephone call later, they stood at the door of Carol Blocker's condominium and embraced....Afterward, the two women continued to meet. Carol talked Joan into making an advertisement with her, a slide that flashed on movie screens before the previews, warning pregnant and postpartum women to get help if they felt down. They joined the Postpartum Depression Illinois Alliance, a group of experts who are working together to help people understand and better treat postpartum mood disorders." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses the efforts of families who have suffered suicide losses to cope and work together to try to prevent suicides by women suffering from postpartum depression.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: From Pain, a New Purpose, March 10, 2003; pp. n.p..
"The newspaper clipping was still in a drawer, where Joan had tucked it away when she read about the suicide of Melanie Stokes and tried to convince herself that it couldn't happen to her family, to her daughter. She pulled it out and looked for the name of Melanie's mother. A telephone call later, they stood at the door of Carol Blocker's condominium and embraced....Afterward, the two women continued to meet. Carol talked Joan into making an advertisement with her, a slide that flashed on movie screens before the previews, warning pregnant and postpartum women to get help if they felt down. They joined the Postpartum Depression Illinois Alliance, a group of experts who are working together to help people understand and better treat postpartum mood disorders." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses the efforts of families who have suffered suicide losses to cope and work together to try to prevent suicides by women suffering from postpartum depression.
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