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"I just didn't want to be alive anymore," Meghan Markle revealed in her two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey on March 7. "And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I remember—I remember how [Prince Harry] just cradled me." Watching the eye-opening conversation all I could think was: Oh Meghan, I'm so sorry. I've been there. Though I'll never experience racism or the toll microaggressions can take on your mental and physical health, or know what it means to meet Queen Elizabeth or be a royal (I've never even been to the U.K.) I do know what it's like to be a ...

Image zoom Credit: Illustration: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong This past April, only a few weeks postpartum, my son's pediatrician handed me a print out of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). The screening tool, developed in Scotland in 1987, is 10 questions long and used around the world to detect a variety of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) such as postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety. The form's prompts range from "I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things" to "The thoug...