| Bacon, Sir Francis |
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Your grammar school
teachers gave you Cs & Ds when you wrote like this. But today people think they are
reporting a first and writing Shakespearean verse... and people even more
mentally void buy their
books. |
"At first I
thought what I was feeling was just exhaustion, but with it came an overriding sense of
panic that I had never felt before with fatigue. Rowan kept crying and I suddenly began to
fear the moment when Chris would bring her back to me. I started to experience a sick
sensation in my stomach; it was as if a vise was tightening around my chest. Instead of
the nervous anxiety that often accompanies panic, a feeling of quiet devastation overcame
me. I hardly moved. Sitting on my bed, I let out a deep, slow, guttural wail. I wasn't
simply emotional or weepy like I had been told I might be. This was something quite
different. When PMS made me introspective or melancholy or when the pressures of life made
me gloomy, I knew these feelings wouldn't last forever. But this was sadness of a
shockingly different magnitude. It felt as if it would never go away."
By Brooke Shields - Excepted from her book,
Down Came the Rain: My Journey
Through Postpartum Depression |
| Having admitted to
writing this book, Ms. Shields may have a difficult time shielding herself from
accusations of actually being as she appears to be on screen. |
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