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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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A few weeks ago, the health care liaison from Senator Dick Durbin's office called me indicating they were having a hard time making headway with a bill called "The MOTHER's Act." It had been introduced in 2007 on Mother's Day, in honor of a woman named Melanie Blocker-Stokes, to create more fundi...

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Cartoon-A-Thon For Mental Health Month - Depression
Chato B. Stewart
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM

Cartoon-A-Thon For Mental Health Month - Depression

Chato B. Stewart here, I thought this might be just want you need to maybe life up the day.

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laurinkim
Friday, May 23, 2008 at 07:04 AM

thanks for this information!

i suffered really awful PPD after my daughter was born-

Since i already knew i was bipolar and consider myself fairly "in the know" about all this stuff, I was sure i was ABOVE PPD.

I thought since I had been on meds, had a great doctor, great support, great pregnancy, etc, that of course it would NEVER happen to me..

and it did!

big time.

SO I want to get involved, but i the links on your page aren't working?

anyway to fix that or please let me know how to get in touch with the proper people.

all my best

laurin

laurinkim@gmail.com

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Karen Kraft
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 11:34 AM

Here's the link to the Legislative Action Center page on our website about postpartum:

http://capwiz.com/ndmda/issues/alert/?alertid=11345976

Our apologies for the broken link!

--Karen

Senior publications coordinator

DBSA

Stigma and ignorance
Rusty
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 09:37 PM

How can anyone who has never been through PND have a right to veto this wonderful bill. My PND was awful and if just one woman can be saved the despair and distress which I endured for 18months I would do anything. My vote is not going to help...coming from Australia, but this bill has my absolute support. I would urge as many people as possible to support it.