My take on it: The way Gemma Amor pictures postnatal depression helped me to understand it better and to gear up with empathy towards myself when/if the time comes.

I truly enjoyed this book. It made me realize so many things not just about postnatal depression, but how my own mother was behaving during those times too when she suffered from it. As I was a child I couldn’t really comprehend what was going on with her, because my mind was so simple: Well, I love my mom, why she doesn’t love me back?  I think Full Immersion helped me at this moment in time to understand more the mental process of it than if I would have picked up a nonfiction book about this subject.

A: I would not pick up a nonfiction book about postnatal depression because I’m battling grief and panic attacks at the moment and I don’t want to add more negative thoughts to the depressed beehive in my head.

B: Since it’s fiction I could treat it as fiction, and deal with the true nature of it without getting cold sweat all over me.

I’m fully aware that I was just tricking my brain but it was actually necessary. At some point, it felt like me reading this book is in a way the same journey as Magpie’s in the virtual world. I loved the characters, and I loved how my relationship changed with the characters as the story progressed. From dislike to acceptance and from like to disappointment. I won’t name the characters because I don’t want to give away anything, but they are very entertaining and kinda give some colour to this understandably dark canvas. The book also had funny, sarcastic dialogues that I really enjoyed, I think it’s a nice way to give the reader a little break between the emotionally intense scenes. A nice petite cushion on the chair of nails. *wink*

It is an emotional book and deals a lot with the main character’s self-exploring journey. In my opinion, if you know how to read it and most importantly receive it, it helps a ton with your own. I also think it is good practice when you are reading a book that is mainly based on the author’s experience on suffering, that it’s better to be a listener, a wide open window if you will, where she can breeze along as she likes. Why you might ask. 

Because there are certain books that need to be written to be received and be read first and not reviewed as a commercial product that needs to be evaluated. 

I would highly recommend this book to people who are suffering from any kind of depression or mental health.I would make this book a must-read for people who know someone, especially if that someone is their close loved one who suffers from postnatal depression, mental health problems, and so on because it helps tremendously to understand their behavior and know what they might actually need in order to get better. I would also recommend it to anyone who is planning to have a child in the future. Not to scare or to fear monger but I’m glad that I know about all of this, so if it happens to me when the time comes at least I will know that what I feel and experience is normal, and might be able to prevent me from hating myself so much. 

I would like to thank Angry Robot and Gemma Amor for my ebook copy of this gem, also thank you for including a cover for the book as well as it made my life so much easier in terms of taking pictures.