Thank you for the affirmation, Deanna.  I don't know if you have read Not Alone yet, but it's a compilation of stories by 37 authors with depression.  I'm one of them.  There are several stories in it from women who have or had postpartum depression.  Though the essays are different, they all share the same themes, one of which is the tendency of many people to say,"Get over it!" or "Where is your faith?  Trust in God and He will deliver you!"  For many of us, that doesn't happen, so we stay silent.  Not Alone was published to let those suffering from depression know they aren't alone and other people have it just like them.

I have clinical depression and don't think I had postpartum depression, but I remember one horrible day when the baby wouldn't quit crying and go to sleep.  I reached the end of my patience, picked him up and shook him, screaming, "SHUT UP!!!"  By the grace of God, his neck wasn't broken by the shaking.  It wasn't until about 15 minutes later that I thought, "God, what is WRONG with me?"

You can't share something like that.  Depression sucks you under and you isolate, ashamed and afraid.  I pray that God uses the things He/She has been leading me to write this last year helps other people with similar wounds.  It still isn't easy for me to be this openly vulnerable.