Quotes by Princess Diana Spencer

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Then I was unwell with postnatal depression, which noone ever discusses postnatal depression, you have to read about it afterwards, and that in itself was a bit of a difficult time, you'd wake up in the morning feeling you didn't want to get out of bed, you felt misunderstood, and very low on yourself. ... I had never had a depression in my life. And then when I analyzed it I could see that the changes I had made in the last year had all caught up with me and my body had said "we want a rest". ... But I knew myself that actually what I needed was space and time to adapt to all the different roles that had come my way. I knew I could do it but I needed people to be patient and give me the space to do it. ... In a space of a year my whole life had changed. Been turned upside down. And it had wonderful moments but it also had challenging moments. And I could see where the rough edges had to be smoothed.

 

You had to either sink or swim, and you have to learn that really fast.

 

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