Laura Richmond had no idea that childbirth could result in post-traumatic stress until she experienced it for herself. After a harrowing labour, she was admitted to a psychiatric mother and baby unit together with her six-week-old son.
Having been funnelled into mental health services almost twenty years earlier, Laura had tried every medication going and everyone had different views on what her problem was. She was increasingly desperate, until the birth of her son sparked a sequence of events that would change everything. Laura retraces her steps through all of this. In doing so, she reflects on the tensions and absurdities within modern mental health care, the ways in which trauma shapes us and directs us, and how we can learn to trust ourselves as parents and as people.
All My Worldly Joy is a story of self-discovery and profound love. It is a story of how one woman's life has been transformed, and of the thousand tiny joys her son brings every day. Laura manages to shine a light on a mental health system that has for so many been unfit for purpose' Dr Miriam Donaghy, psychotherapist and founder of MumsAid 'Wonderful, rich and challenging.
After that date, it will still be possible to pre-ord About the book. Status: Supporters list closed. Publication date: An astonishing memoir. Perfectly straddling the line of heart-cracking and side-splitting, Laura bleeds her most vulnerable moments in tender, honest prose with searing wit and insight.
A masterpiece Sara Gibbs, author of Drama Queen. About the author. Your Bag. Login to Checkout Keep Shopping.
