A Mother's Climb Out Of Darkness by Jennifer H. Moyer

She strives to increase awareness, education and support of mental health issues related to childbearing. She is the author of A Mother’s Climb Out of Darkness and focuses her efforts on being a mental health advocate in the area of perinatal mental health in order to help others experiencing mental illness related to childbearing. She overcame postpartum psychosis, a life threatening mental illness, which she was struck with when her son was eight weeks old. She writes off a large portion of her pain and emerges triumphant.Jennifer has unique insight into mental health as a recovered mom herself. Great full length collection of poems, poetry therapy, and blogs about Jeanne's life. This book reveals all, including incidence, signs and symptoms, cause, treatment and prevention, in lay language. Neurosis, a mental illness, affects everyone to a greater or lesser extent, yet most know little or nothing about it. Neurosis Revealed: The illness we all have but know little or nothing Jennifer’s deepest heart-cry is to get the message out: there is help, there is hope and you are not alone.Ī powerful true story of a woman's struggle with domestic abuse, suicide attempts, incarceration in a mental hospital and ultimately diagnosis of her malady and recovery by author Sherry Genga, edited by Nina Anderson The delusion became real to her and at that point she became so impaired that she could not even recognize her doctor, who dialed 911.Įnter into Jennifer’s life and see how her determination to become whole, coupled with her strong faith, played an incredible role in her recovery which continues to inspire her still to this day. Often misunderstood and misdiagnosed this disease impacted not just Jennifer herself, but her beloved family as well.įollowing the birth of her son, Jennifer began a downward spiral of sleepless nights, gripping fear that someone would harm her or her baby, and irrational distrust of everyone including her husband. In this heartrending memoir told through memories, journals and medical records, one woman, Jennifer Hentz Moyer, shares her incredible journey into and out of postpartum psychosis. A first-person account of the heartbreak and ultimate triumph over postpartum psychosis

A Mother's Climb Out Of Darkness by Jennifer H. Moyer