Good video. It’s weird because I was anxious that I might be “prone” to this having had a bout of depression after redundancy years ago. But I feel really good that actually I’m doing well. Yep I have bad days, cabin fever days, lonely days and days where I’m not therapeutic but mostly I’m doing great but regardless, I’ve learned not to be too hard on myself when I’m no quite at my best. You summed it up best when you said it’s harder in a way because we are under scrutiny so much more. Not just by professionals, but friends and family looking at us and seeing if we are bonding and attaching etc. It’s hard but I’m jeffing well really proud of myself.

Thanks for sharing this! It's such an isolating feeling for sure, so the more people willing to talk about it the better! I recently made a vlog about signs of post adoption depression and my experience with it...I can definitely relate to some of the feelings your friend experienced ❤️

Thank you for talking about this subject and thank you to the brave woman who shared her experience with adoption depression, I am going through the beginnings of the adoption journey and I was worried about things like this it's something that I haven't seen talked about through my studying all aspects of adoption, I am choosing adoption because it's how I want to become a parent it's something I've always wanted to do (I don't have issues with people who want to biologically) I Keep seeing a lot about the good things, which is great but not a lot on the difficult sides of adoption I'm happy to see it talked about, not just the possibility of depression but the days where it won't be easy. I'm learning so much from your channel thank you.

Thank you so much for making this video and on behalf of the lady who you were in touch with. We are just about to go into intros and the blues have already hit I think because of a combination of all the factors you described. I certainly relate to the feeling of having to be the best of the best and being held to an impossible standard throughout this journey and it's been really hard going feeling like I have to be some kind of super human rather than simply a "good enough" parent. Thanks again and what you're doing for the UK adoption journey cannot be valued highly enough xxx

My wife and I have have just adopted two brothers and are facing some symptoms of post adoption depression

Hi Aimee do you get offered counselling while going through the adoption process?