Can I even take responsibility for becoming a mother? I asked myself this question more than once in the course of my therapy. Because of burnout, or a severe depressive episode and an anxiety disorder with panic attacks (eight years ago, the diagnosis “burnout” didn’t officially exist yet), I had been in a psychosomatic clinic for a few months. At least I had left psychiatry and the worst depression behind me. Now I fought against the thick fog in my head that persisted.
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