Rainy Days, Mondays And Post Adoption Blues

This past week, I attended a course about post adoption depression. The symptoms can easily be compared with post partum depression. This type of depression has not been fully explored. Post adoption depression has long existed without being mentioned outside of immediate circles of discussion which have mostly happened behind closed doors.

It can be asked if depression is generational. Although there is no doubt that depression can extend through family branches there are unanswered questions about post adoption depression. Adoption dates are forgotten over time. The memories surrounding adoption that were once part of daily lives eventually fade. What genetic footprints are carried through generations in the form of emotions is a question that is unanswered.

Those who were once part of an adoption triangle all spent time looking at the same scene from different views. The birth mother loved the season that brought falling leaves across the landscape. Walking through a shaker scene of colors, she felt alone in her recent memories which included parting with her newly born child. The adoptive mother walked along a road filled with gravel, weeds and wildflowers. The baby was with her resting quietly in a carrier. Their paths did not interwine but were not far from one another.