The Other Side
My story is about how my experience of postpartum psychosis redefined my understanding of wellness as I walked the line between being a clinical psychologist and a psychiatric patient.
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Shattered Dreams
Creating this stained glass piece was symbolic of putting my life back together – different, and without any specific representation, but with a beauty of its own.
Friends with the Monsters
This drawing depicts my husband’s efforts to lead me out of my psychosis and other symptoms of bipolar disorder and my reluctance to leave.
The Bumpity Bumps
It is really, really hard to trust your brain after it’s betrayed you. It seems easier, wiser, to let others tell you what’s important. What’s true. What’s real.
Forever Mine
Forever. For ever.
And always. And all ways.
You are stronger than yesterday.
You are braver than you feel today.
Signs of Spring
Until that moment, I didn’t know it was possible for the human mind to lose its placeholder in the passage of time.
Please, don’t let go
My heart goes out to all of the mamas who are affected by postpartum psychosis.
Poems: When I Stopped Seeing Color; Oh Dear Sleep; What Is Happening To Me?
3 poems by Jigyna Patel
Building Our Community Mosaic
Join us in building a more complete picture of the pregnancy and postpartum psychosis community.