Mothers and Sleep Medication
THE indiscriminate worries and ruminations that churn through the mind of Cheryl Downs McCoy are matters most working mothers have rifled through at some point: “I need to call that guy about fixing the car. I think I’ve run out my daughter’s favorite snack. Should I change the batteries in the smoke alarm?”
These are entirely acceptable matters to ponder. But not at 3 in the morning. Yet that is when Ms. McCoy, a 45-year-old museum exhibit writer in Oakland, Calif., lies awake, debating and categorizing the details of working motherhood.
“Most of the time I get stuck mulling over the logistics of how everything’s going to [...]
"Mother’s little helper of the new millennium may in fact be the sleeping pill — a prescription not likely to inspire a jaunty pop song anytime soon."
The original 'mother's little helper' is a sleeping pill, too, and still in use as such; not sure what they're on about there. I do think it's time to acknowledge that we as humans have always altered our consciousnesses through substances in order to bend ourselves to our own will and instead of trying to put a stop to that we might be more successful in minimizing ill effects by learning how our personal chemistries react with various things and learning how to use those things accordingly (if at all).
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