Can experiences of mental health following childbirth help those currently suffering with perinatal mental health issues

有许多心理健康障碍影响妇女在怀孕期间或孩子出生后的一年，这些被定义为围产期心理健康障碍。本论文旨在探讨如何产妇叙述围产期心理健康的对等资源可以是有用的工具，改善母亲的生活患有心理健康问题。将解决以下研究问题：RQ1：通过对等资源提供孕产妇心理健康的叙述？这些有助于对抗心理健康的耻辱吗？RQ 2：叙述分享对那些使用自己的围产期心理健康经验来帮助他人的母亲有什么作用？RQ3：患有心理健康问题的母亲如何使用他人的叙述来改善自己的心理健康？目前已经提出的政府政策都围绕着确保人们的心理健康和身体健康得到照顾的目标。正如将要探讨的那样，围产期心理健康不仅会导致母亲的心理，社会和情感问题，还会对婴儿造成长期的身体和情感伤害。这两个巨大的困难造成财政损失已经陷入困境的国家卫生服务和长期资金不足和不断减少的幼儿服务。使用奥利维亚西格尔创立的“光明的信”项目的信件，将采用深入的定性方法，以阐明妇女的围产期心理健康和提供支持的经验。为了更全面地了解同行叙述中提供的经验和支持，并了解不再受苦的妇女为什么选择为了他人而挖掘潜在的困难记忆，对这些信件进行了专题分析，并对要求写信妇女对该计划提供反馈的在线调查进行了分析，接受这些方案的母亲、母婴单位、国民保健服务信托基金、家庭启动基金和皇家助产学院也在利用该项目支持她们护理的妇女。心理健康障碍已经是生殖社会学的一个研究不足的领域，在过去6个月因新冠肺炎而导致全球、国家和地方封锁之后，面对面的社交网络和支持服务进一步减少。该项目的研究结果旨在表明，精神健康障碍会影响产妇身份，以及在日益偏远和数字化的时代，同伴支持如何帮助管理这一点。因此，本论文将努力促进社会学知识和揭示妇女的经验，怀孕和母亲在21世纪世纪，并产生一个NHS指南，与卫生从业人员合作，关于潜在的对等叙事提供有关PMH。从一开始，这篇论文将从一个产后抑郁症幸存者的角度反射性地写。因此，除了分析其他母亲写的围产期心理健康故事外，本文将使用自我民族志来分析我自己的围产期心理健康故事。

There are many mental health disorders that affect women within their pregnancy or the year following the birth of their child, these are defined as perinatal mental health disorders. This thesis aims to explore how maternal narratives of perinatal mental health in peer-to-peer resources can be useful tools for improving the lives of mothers suffering with mental health issues. The following research questions will be addressed:RQ1: What narratives of maternal mental health are offered via peer-to-peer resources? And do these help counter mental health stigmas?RQ2: What role does narrative sharing perform for mothers who use their own experiences of perinatal mental health to help others?RQ3: How do mothers who are suffering from mental health issues use the narratives of others to improve their own mental health?Current government policies that have already been proposed are centred around the aim to make sure people's mental health are looked after as well as their physical health. As will be explored, perinatal mental health not only causes psychological, social, and emotional issues for mothers, it can also cause long lasting physical and emotional damage for their infants. Both of these vast difficulties cause financial damage to an already struggling National Health Service and a chronically underfunded and dwindling Early Childhood Service.Using letters from 'The Letters of Light' project founded by Olivia Siegl, an in-depth qualitative approach will be utilised in order to shed new light on women's experiences of perinatal mental health and the support on offer. In order to gain a more complete appreciation of the experiences and support offered within peer-to-peer narratives, as well as an understanding as to why women who are no longer suffering chose to dig up potentially difficult memories for the sake of others, thematic analysis of the letters and analysis of online surveys requesting feedback on the scheme from the women who wrote the letters, the mothers that received them and the mother and baby units, NHS trusts, Homestart and the Royal College of Midwifery who are also using the project to support the women in their care. Mental health disorders are already an under researched area in the sociology of reproduction, and following the past 6 months of global, national and local lockdowns due to Covid-19 there has been an additional decline in face-to-face social networks and support services. The findings from this project will aim to show have mental health disorders affects maternal identity and how, in increasingly remote and digital times, peer support can help manage this. Accordingly, this thesis will endeavour to contribute to sociological knowledge and shed new light on women's experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in the 21st Century and produce an NHS guide, in cooperation with health practitioners, about the potential that peer-to-peer narratives offer in relation to PMH. From the onset this thesis will be written reflexively from the perspective of a postnatal depression survivor. Thus, alongside the analysis of perinatal mental health narratives written by other mothers; this thesis will use autoethnography to analyse my own perinatal mental health story.