Since this is part of The Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, the song is certainly about some mental illness. The speaker is obviously battling with intense depression. The question is what spurred the depression.
I used to lean toward postpartum depression/psychosis, which may still be the case. Everything that leads us to believe that her child is dead may be irrational thoughts, associating being with and feeling the love of her child only with the pregnancy. Now that the child is out, she feels no connection to her. Maybe she is also irrationally blaming the doctors for birthing the child. The only thing that troubles me is the part that says it's been 5 years. PPP when left untreated will only last a few months. Perhaps in her psychosis, closer in time to the birth, she killed her child and is now dealing with it.
I don't buy the idea of it being a botched birth. 6DOIT is about severe mental illness, and the depression that would be associated with a stillbirth would be filed away under normal grief. It certainly would not warrant being named one of the degrees.
Since this is part of The Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, the song is certainly about some mental illness. The speaker is obviously battling with intense depression. The question is what spurred the depression.
I used to lean toward postpartum depression/psychosis, which may still be the case. Everything that leads us to believe that her child is dead may be irrational thoughts, associating being with and feeling the love of her child only with the pregnancy. Now that the child is out, she feels no connection to her. Maybe she is also irrationally blaming the doctors for birthing the child. The only thing that troubles me is the part that says it's been 5 years. PPP when left untreated will only last a few months. Perhaps in her psychosis, closer in time to the birth, she killed her child and is now dealing with it.
I don't buy the idea of it being a botched birth. 6DOIT is about severe mental illness, and the depression that would be associated with a stillbirth would be filed away under normal grief. It certainly would not warrant being named one of the degrees.