4.8 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Author, Poet and Illustrator Laura Dockrill first heard of postpartum psychosis after a phone call with her best friend Adele (yes, the singer!). Her journey to recovery hasn't been easy but it's taught her a lot of lessons and helped make her the woman she is now.
But what is Laura thankful for today? Angela finds out...
TRIGGER WARNINGS: references to suicide, mental health
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0:00.0 | Online shopping is pretty much the only shopping that's happening right now, but if you need to send or return something, click and post from OnPust means that you can calculate pay and print your own postage online. |
0:12.8 | All you have to do is attach the label to your parcel and drop it to your local post office. Easy. |
0:18.5 | Find out more at OnPust.com forward slash click and post there's another little thing |
0:23.6 | to be thankful for blackout eye masks particularly the ones that you can flap your eyelashes in |
0:29.2 | cutting up banana skins to feed them to my plants and my Tibetan singing ball yes she's called |
0:36.5 | Margaret and she's pitch perfect. |
0:38.9 | There are a million things that I'm thankful for today, but what is my guest thankful for? |
0:43.8 | When I noticed my recovery started speeding up, when it happened quicker than I thought, |
0:48.1 | was as soon as I went, goodbye guilt, goodbye shame. |
0:52.1 | Welcome to Thanks a Million. I'm Angela Scanlon and this is the show |
0:55.0 | that takes a sneaky look at my guest's gratitude list to find out the things that have shaped |
0:59.6 | their lives. This week, I'm chatting to an old pal of mine. It's poet, illustrator and author |
1:08.8 | Laura Dockrell. On paper, Laura's life would seem pretty perfect. |
1:12.9 | A remarkable career show was friends like Adele and Kate Nash and a beautiful family. |
1:18.4 | But Laura's life was turned upside down when she started showing symptoms of postpartum psychosis after the birth of her son. |
1:25.9 | By the way, this episode contains chat |
1:28.7 | that some listeners will want to know about in advance |
1:31.5 | and may find distressing or triggering. |
1:34.4 | So check out the show notes for all of the details below |
1:37.6 | before you dive in. |
1:40.1 | Before we get into Laura, |
1:41.4 | let's get to you. |
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