@ashbg.motherhood: Of course therapy is valuable. Of course medication saves lives. I am not dismissing either. But we have developed a habit of reaching for clinical solutions to structural problems. And there is a meaningful difference between a mother who needs mental health support and a mother who needs someone to show up and help her. When a mother is drowning, when she is exhausted, isolated, undersupported, and running on nothing, the first question should not be whether her hormones are off. It should be: who is helping her? Is her partner doing his share? Does she have support around her? Is she getting any sleep? Does she have a single hour in the day that belongs to her? Is the load she is carrying something one person was ever supposed to carry alone? Because if the answer to those questions is no and if she is solo parenting in a partnership, if her village has been dismantled, if she is the default parent and the household manager and the emotional regulator and the one who never stops, then what she has is not a chemical imbalance. What she has is an impossible situation. And medicating her into being able to cope with it better is not treatment. It is management. Of a problem we refuse to solve. Mothers deserve to have their cries for help met with actual help. Not a prescription that makes the unbearable slightly more bearable while the conditions that created the unbearable remain completely unchanged. Support first. Always support first.

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