Blogger-advocate Katherine Stone shares an interesting new column about the role of race in women's willingness and ability to seek professional help for mental health issues.

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The Postpartum Progress blog has a great new profile on women's health advocate Helena Bradford, who founded the Ruth Rhoden Craven Foundation for Postpartum Depression Awareness in South Carolina.

Helena started the Foundation after losing her daughter Ruth, age 33, in 1999, just two and a half months after the birth of Ruth's first baby. Helena has done so much to spread awareness that the illness which took her daughter's life is VERY treatable! We just have to know what to look for, when to get professional help, and we need more resources in more communities to provide that help.

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Did you know that the Postpartum Progress blog, authored by advocate Katherine Stone, features an online album of "Surviving & Thriving" moms and their children?

The album includes mamas who have survived perinatal mood disorders and gone on to be happy, healthy parents who are feeling like themselves again and enjoying their kids. If you'd like to join the album, contact Katherine at: stonecallis (at) msn (dot) com. Your positive outcome can give hope to other women and families, letting them know that it can and does get better.

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I love the personal blog of fellow Washingtonian and mother-journalist Tracy Thompson, whose new book, The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children, & Struggling with Depression I'm about to delve into with a book club comprised of DC moms.

Tracy's blog is Maternally Challenged, and reading it is for me, at times, like looking into the mirror.

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