Erin Dohan: Author & Survivor

New memoir I Think I’m Ready to Talk coming September 2026

When a brain aneurysm nearly killed her at twenty seven years old, Erin Dohan thought life's biggest challenge was behind her. But, the following five years were filled with continuous medical battles - miscarriage, emergency abortion, infertility, complicated pregnancy, painful postpartum, ovarian torsion, and the eventual removal of both ovaries. I Think I’m Ready to Talk is a raw, honest memoir about surviving not just multiple medical crises, but surviving the system itself and finding a voice after years of suffering in silence.

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About the author

Erin Dohan is an Accounting Controller, writer, wife and mother whose life changed in an instant when she survived a ruptured brain aneurysm at twenty-seven years old. Her memoir, I Think I’m Ready to Talk, is a raw and unfiltered exploration of recovery, identity and rediscovering herself and the purpose of life after the unimaginable. 

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Postpartum OCD & Anxiety
Postpartum OCD & Anxiety

For nine months you hear the same promises on repeat:

“Enjoy the peace and quiet while you can.”

“Once the baby’s here, everything will make sense.”

“You’ll feel nothing but love.”

“You’ll bounce back in no time.”

“Everything you’re feeling is normal. You are just overthinking.”

However, before I ever became a mother, my mind and body had already survived two events that rewired me from the inside out.

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Survival
Survival

Wednesday, May 29, 2019: I was twenty-seven years old when my life was suddenly split in two; life before the ruptured brain aneurysm and life after. At the time of the rupture I was unaware that this was happening. A quiet moment I didn’t have words for. A period of my life I struggle to remember clearly. A rupture inside my own head so silent that I didn’t understand I was crossing a line I could never uncross.

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