I always thought motherhood would make me feel complete. Instead, it had the opposite effect. I felt incomplete. Becoming a mother stole my identity.” So says Pat Dickinson, an 84-year-old highly respected retired educator who looks back to a time in her life when postpartum depression took her to the brink of despair. She had her first suicidal thoughts. Now, 60 years later, she examines that experience for the lessons learned.