For me, learning to be a person involved a diagnosis, self-advocacy and starting my own business

For me, learning to be a person involved a diagnosis, self-advocacy and starting my own business

When my twins were infants, my husband was afraid to leave me alone with them. Though I didn’t experience postpartum depression or anxiety, I worried I might because of my mental health history. I have never harmed my children or knowingly put them in harm’s way. But when they were tiny and screaming and always touching me, I would freeze. I don’t think I was a danger to them, but a new mother who can’t move, alone all day with two babies, is un…