Beyond the Blues, Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety

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The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook: Practical Skills to Help You Over

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The Pregnancy and Post-Partum Anxiety Workbook: Practical Skills to Help You Overcome Anxiety, Worry, Panic Attacks, Obsessions, and Compulsions

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Overcoming Postpartum Depression & Anxiety

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Most medical research confirms that about three fourths of new mothers have some form of postpartum depression. Many of these women would also be inclined to run to a professional doctor or therapist for help. However, before we go trying to get rid of it, let us first understand it.

Think of it in very simple terms. A mother who has a baby should be happy, but instead is mostly sad. The answer most of the time is postpartum depression. In more extreme cases, the mother feels very depressed, alone, and sometimes they don’t automatically feel the natural love they should for their baby.

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Question by BIRDY85: Is it true that you can get postpartum depression after a miscarriage?
Is it also true that hypothyroidism can be a cause to miscarriage?

Best answer:

Answer by mommyxxx2
its very true

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Throughout the past 33 years in private practice, hundreds of women have told me they felt that their current health problems started soon after the birth of their child. The child may have been her first or fifth, and might now be a teenager or even a grown man or woman, but the mother remembers the postpartum onset of her symptoms as if it were yesterday.

The symptoms that usually start within the first to twelfth postpartum months vary widely among mothers. A few of the most common are despondency and despair, chronic fatigue, sleeplessness, anxiousness, lack of confidence, loss of sex drive and passion, muscle and joint pains, unhealthy skin, hair and nails, digestive disturbances, bladder problems, heart disease, trouble breathing, and a host of troubling emotions and moods swings. A woman can be puzzled, frustrated, even embarrassed when she reveals symptoms that have plagued her for years. She may have shared her self–observations with doctors only to find that they were not worthy of an acknowledgment or comforting comment from her physician. Any attempt on her part to connect the birth of one of her children with those symptoms may have been met with skepticism or passed over. Yet, she can’t shake the feeling that something about that particular birth began her health decline.

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This is a question which does not have a black and white answer, and it is a question that is as much for the society in which we live as it is for healthcare practitioners, families ,friends and  mothers.  Why?  Because in societies where women have the most support, i.e. paid leave and automatic postnatal health and  household chore support, the incidence of PPD (postpartum depression) is significantly lower.

PPD and PPA (Postpartum Anxiety) are experienced by many women after child birth and yet it’s been little more than a decade that we have been talking about the problem.  We give a lot of credit to Marie   Osmond, who 12 years ago went on the Oprah show and talked about her experience with PPD and shed some light on the issue.  Up until that point, PPD and PPA did not have a face.  It was not something discussed in polite company.  The myth of “happy motherhood and perfect baby” was the picture most of us carried around.  And that picture made it even more difficult for mothers to come forward and get the help that they needed.

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The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook: Practical Skills to Help You Overcome Anxiety, Worry, Panic Attacks, Obsessions, and Compulsions

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Postpartum depresson (PPD) is also called as postnatal depression. It is a form of clinical depression hitting women (and sometimes even men) after the birth of a child. Studies indicate as much as 5-25% of women suffer from postpartum depression symptoms.

Having a baby is one of the happiest moments in the life of a mother. It can be so thrilling and exciting to have a new baby enter your lives. But it can even be very challenging at times. A woman goes through a lot of changes at physical and emotional levels during pregnancy and child birth.

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