Yeah. There's a reason why nearly 60% of mid 40 year old women were on anti-depressants back during those years. Lot of women self medicating too.

Turns out, having one's self identity eroded under the role and demands of motherhood isn't good for one's mental health. Who'd have thunk it?

When I was a young woman, I didn't want to be a mother because all the stay at home moms I knew were either self medicating, medicated, desperately should be, or pretty much built an isolated internal world that they mentally and emotionally lived in as a survival mechanism. That was more real to them than reality.