{"id":566,"date":"2021-07-12T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2021-09-28T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:32:46","slug":"reading-list-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"reading list: depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Silent Souls Weeping<\/em> by Jane Clayson Johnson is about dealing with depression in the context of the LDS faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQEQVeVItaehxvns7ASk7HCchd3BNIGim31depRBbKjijnQwHnTaxfeD0thgNNmM40BWl3vHcl3cg&amp;usqp=CAc\" alt=\"Silent Souls Weeping\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a mix of memoir of her own experience with it, and interviews she did with other people, so there is a variety of perspective. Some people deal with the long-term effects of chemical imbalance in their brains. Some people had a short stint with just a year or two and then were fine. She had chapters on postpartum depression, and the depression of being LGBT in a religious environment that believes just being gay is a sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My family has a lot of experience with mental health issues and neuro-divergence, so there really wasn&#8217;t anything new for me in the book. But I gave it a high rating on Goodreads anyway, so that other people will read it. It has a lot of good information and stories that will help create empathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My personal take-away was a reminder to keep an eye on younger women in my circles of influence when they are pregnant, and to let them know clearly that &#8220;postpartum depression&#8221; can also happen DURING pregnancy. No one seems to know that &#8211; and doctors don&#8217;t tell you &#8211; until you actually go through it, which I did. I went progressively downhill through my pregnancies until the last one when I just wanted to sleep ALL the time, and ended up with an antidepressant medication just to get through the day. As soon as the baby was born, it was like a switch flipped, and I had my brain back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent Souls Weeping by Jane Clayson Johnson is about dealing with depression in the context of the LDS faith. It&#8217;s a mix of memoir of her own experience with it, and interviews she did with other people, so there is a variety of perspective. Some people deal with the long-term effects of chemical imbalance in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=566\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;reading list: depression&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reading-list","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}