The creator's vulnerability in sharing personal struggles with postpartum mental health, combined with her relatable tone and the unexpected mention of her monetization success, likely resonated with a broad audience, driving engagement and shares.
Summary
The creator discusses her experiences with postpartum depression and anxiety, contrasting her first and second pregnancies. She shares that her second experience was more challenging, leading to feelings of rage and anxiety, and expresses a desire to share more positive stories about motherhood. She also mentions that her recent monetization of a popular post is helping her afford therapy and other self-care expenses.
Structure
1Discussing fear of postpartum journey
2Recounting negative experience with birth control
3Sharing positive first pregnancy/delivery experience
4
Original caption
I used to glazzzeeee motherhood, but like 🌝 yeah it do be hard
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Describing current struggles with postpartum anxiety/rage
5Expressing desire to share positive motherhood stories
6Mentioning monetization and its benefits
Product placement
Muse Fragrance (a perfume brand); Musefrag.com (the website for Muse Fragrance)
Transcript
While I was pregnant with my first child, the thing I was honestly most scared about was the postpartum journey. There was one time that I had experienced depression and it was when I had tried a new birth control pill and a couple weeks into it, I felt an insane amount of depression. And as soon as I stopped the medication, I snapped right back to normal. And thank goodness, it was the medication and it wasn't like, my chemical imbalance. And so knowing how I felt at that time, I never ever wanted to experience that again, especially with having to care for another life. So I did so much labor prep to try to make labor as smooth as possible. And honestly, the delivery went perfectly. And I had such a good baby. So I was so excited to have another baby. It just sucks that this time I was affected by postpartum depression, anxiety, rage, more the anxiety and rage, less of the depression. I think I get the depressive thoughts, but most of the time I'm in like that fighter flight on edge mode. And so that's more the anxiety and rage. And then it's not even just the kids. It can be a lot of things. Just like the drop of a hat, like I feel my blood fucking boiling. You know, I feel my fist like clenching sometimes because like I get so worked up. And if you know me in real life, like I'm not like that, I swear I'm not. Like my kids are so chill and everyone tells me that, everyone says, oh, it's because you guys feed off of each other's energy. And that's like awesome. So it's really not my kids. I mean, kids can be frustrating. Kids can be annoying. So yeah, like sometimes it's them, but I expect that from them. I didn't expect any of this from myself. I hate those just wait people. I hate people that make motherhood seem so miserable. Some people think that I am that person, um, because of that post and I always felt like there's enough negativity surrounding motherhood that I wanted to be the one to provide positive stories, positive deliveries, positive experiences. Like you can have two and it's still okay. Like the way people talk about the second child, you know, the first one kicks you into having the second one and then that one's horrible. No, like I have two great babies. It's just the postpartum thing. I mean, I felt lucky that the first medication I got prescribed worked almost immediately and I felt like a completely new person. It helped me over for a good while, but of course, now I have to figure out something else. Also, I'll keep you guys updated, but I have monetized somewhat recently in the last couple months and that was my most popular post so far. It only says 80 cents, but it should refresh today and every day it refreshes, it usually like a day or two behind. So now that that post is just about a million, and a million people think I'm fucking crazy, regardless, it is helping me pay for therapy, daycare, maybe just a sweet treat to make me feel better. So I guess that's cool. So I will once again thank the trolls for getting me paid for therapy, daycare, maybe just a sweet treat to make me feel better. So I guess that's cool. So I will once again thank the trolls for getting me paid.
