Understanding the Depressions. Wyn Bramley
weeks, rehydrated, pumped with vitamins and other supplements, and then nothing but rest and more rest for a further week. She returned home right as rain except for some patchy memory loss which didn’t seem to trouble her.
The dead baby was not mentioned again and normal life in the household resumed. Val completed her training, before marrying Brian and having a lovely baby a year or so later.
Penny remained well, though according to Val her husband sometimes irritated her, treating her like a Ming vase.
Around five years after the breakdown, now working in different hospitals and rarely able to meet, Val and I finally got together for a proper weekend break. I asked after Penny. Apart from the mother-in-law connection she had become an important figure to us in our professional lives. She it was who’d brought us face to face with what we scoured old text books to find – “involutional melancholia”, or midlife Depression as we would say today. She was still well and seemed happy, though was thinking about cutting down on the dance classes and doing a history course at the local college. She enjoyed her grandchildren – Brian’s brother now had three to add to Val’s two.
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