'They saved my family': Mums urged not to suffer in silence after drop in those seeking help for post-natal depression [itv.com]

Karen Clemmer 2/10/2110:23 AM

By Astrid Quinn, ITV, February 4, 2021

Kathryn Hamelton, from Sheffield, gave birth to her fourth child Sophia in February last year.

But caring for a newborn baby and three other children in the isolation of lockdown began to take its toll and in October 2020, she tried to take her own life. She explained:

I just felt too much pain. I just didn't want my kids to see what I was going through. I couldn't do it anymore. That was my lowest point. I just felt so embarrassed and so scared. I never thought I was capable of that.
Kathryn Hamelton

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