A 36-year-old mother’s postpartum depression: ‘I felt like I was in a dark box with no windows’
She did not sleep for nights on end and had such severe heart palpitations that doctors thought she had heart failure. Just four days after giving birth to her son in September 2020, Ethel Yap found herself in the emergency department. “Every time my body jerked itself awake, I was gasping for breath, like I