I’M so chuffed to announce today that I’ve been nominated in the Blog Awards Ireland ‘Best Blog Post’ category for a post I wrote about post natal depression.
I had no idea I had been nominated until I received an email to say I had been, and I didn’t know for which post until this morning when the Longlist was released. And boy, is it a long list!
There are loads of brilliant blogs and posts in the running for this and I’m so so happy to be among them. I’m also so happy that it is that particular post I was nominated for. It’s a post that means a lot to me.
It was written as a visceral response to an interview with the journalist John Waters which I read in the Sunday Independent where he said he didn’t believe in depression, that the condition was ‘made up’. I was hopping mad, I couldn’t sit still and the words just poured out of me.
I couldn’t let that go, I couldn’t sit and read that article and do nothing. Depression does exist, it’s very real and it affects millions of people very day. So it means so much to me that it was deemed worthy of a nomination.
The way the Best Blog Post category works is that there is a two week ‘public voting’ section where the long list will be whittled down to ten finalists. After that then, the ten finalists will be judged by a panel of judges and the winner announced at the awards ceremony in October.
This is where the shameless plug comes in – I’d love it if you could vote for me to be a finalist. All you have to do is follow this link and click on the little circle beside Beating Myself Into A Dress and then click Vote. That’s it! Ah sure go on, what else would you be doing of a Friday afternoon? And if you don’t vote for me, well, I’ll just have to get Mammy Dunne after you and she’s a whizz with the oul wooden spoon so she is.
Thank you in advance for your vote and for your support and most of all for reading the blog. I appreciate it so much.
A Cookbook Collection
Good luck!
beatingmyselfintoadress
Thank you!
Margaret
Wow, you’re in 2nd place
beatingmyselfintoadress
I’m delighted, there’s still a long way to go though and lots of great blogs. Thanks for the vote!
francesskincare
Thank you for highlighting PND as you have done.
I struggled with this, unknowing and unaided, through 1976.
I got a diagnosis, finally, in the late 2000’s, such a relief!
I’d been functioning until then, but the upshot was a major depressive episode, out of the blue, in 2008. I got the treatment I needed and haven’t looked back, but when JW presented his opinion, believe me, I’d have been more dangerous than Mammy Dunne, if I’d laid hands on him.
Many thanks for the blogpost, take care-and best of luck!
beatingmyselfintoadress
SO sorry to hear you struggled for so long Frances. It really is something that is kept hidden a lot of the time. I’m very glad you got the treatment you needed and deserved and are recovering now. Thanks so much for your kind words and for reading.
Jen
Best of luck Karen!
beatingmyselfintoadress
Thanks so much! And same to you!
Breeda
Congratulations – a very powerful post – vote in!
beatingmyselfintoadress
Thank you so much!
mytravelmonkey
Congrats! And well deserved. Just voted!
beatingmyselfintoadress
Thank you so much!
a modern mommys world
Congratulations and so well deserved, brilliant blog. Thank you for your honesty, i really could relate having suffered from post-natal depression the last year after two very taumatic births. I would love to share your post on my blog if thats ok? Best of luck and you have to make top 10 xx
beatingmyselfintoadress
That’s no problem at all, thanks so much for commenting! When you share it on your blog send me a link so I can direct others to you too!