It's hard to imagine a joke more cruel than postpartum mood disorder:
<p style="text-align: center;">Nine months of excited anticipation centred on the joys of being a new mother but instead you experience a full-frontal attack of depression, anxiety and/or intolerable mood swings!</p>
And perhaps the worst part is that you don't even realize at first that you have something that is a <strong><span style="color: #800080;"><em>treatable condition</em></span></strong>.  When you are the one in the throes of a mood swing you may be the last one to be aware of it.

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Being pregnant and happily awaiting your new baby and all the joys motherhood brings and then when it happens you all you can do is cry or stress.

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when what we expect to be the happiest time of your life, turns to one of the saddest or most anxious or most disruptive

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Happily expecting to meet your new baby for 9 months and all you can do is cry or stress.

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Postpartum mood disorder is such a cruel joke.  There are times when I think back that I still can't wrap my head around what happened to me.

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