Do you notice that after giving birth, your psycho-emotional state has changed? It is possible that you are experiencing postpartum depression.
What is Postpartum Depression?
Postpartum depression Is a mood disorder that affects women in childbirth. Mothers experiencing postpartum depression experience depression, anxiety, and exhaustion. Postpartum depression can cause feelings of depression and anxiety so intense that women lose the ability to care for themselves and their families.The main symptoms are:
- Irritability, feeling of emptiness, feeling of depression, hopelessness.
- Frequent, unreasonable crying, feelings of excessive anxiety, concern.
- Difficulty concentrating and making decisions.
- Feelings of anger or rage.
- Loss of interest in enjoyable activities that were previously enjoyable.
- Avoiding communication with family and friends.
- Difficulty building emotional attachment with your child.
- Constant doubts about their own ability to take care of the child.
- Thoughts about hurting yourself or your child.
Basically, depression can be divided into 3 stages.
Blues
During childbirth, the body experiences the effect of a "hormonal explosion" associated with both the launch of natural mechanisms and the artificial stimulation of the birth process. And the consequence of this process most often becomes - blues.
Depression
In such cases, women can be constantly agitated, on the nerves. Sleep loss is possible.
Minor complications in childbirth
One of the complex types of depression affects mothers whose children were born with one or another deviation or violation of the birth process. In addition to problems in childbirth, a woman may experience complications associated with hormonal disruption.
How to treat the problem of postpartum depression?
It should be understood that the issue of postpartum depression is not a “bad mood” issue. Often it consists in the problems of restoring the physiological functions of the body, supported by psychological problems. Only a holistic approach (medicine + psychology) can give tangible results and prevent complications.
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