Indiana mother lives with perinatal mood disorder
INDIANAPOLIS — Jen Wilkinson can picture her funeral.
She can see her children crying. She imagines what her husband might say, explaining to their young boys that their mother is gone.
These scenes, or intrusive thoughts, are the result of anxiety and hypochondria, which intensified after she had her first baby. Her mother died when she was 6 years old. Now that she’s a mother herself, she’s afraid of leaving her children like her mother left her.