Postpartum Depression

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:20 Causes of Postpartum depression
1:48 Signs and Symptoms of Postpartum depression
2:51 Diagnosis of Postpartum depression
3:24 Treatment of Postpartum depression
3:47 Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression (PPD), also called postnatal depression, is a type of mood disorder associated with childbirth, which can affect both sexes. Symptoms may include extreme sadness, low energy, anxiety, crying episodes, irritability, and changes in sleeping or eating patterns. Onset is typically between one week and one month following childbirth. PPD can also negatively affect the newborn child.

While the exact cause of PPD is unclear, the cause is believed to be a combination of physical and emotional factors. These may include factors such as hormonal changes and sleep deprivation. Risk factors include prior episodes of postpartum depression, bipolar disorder, a family history of depression, psychological stress, complications of childbirth, lack of support, or a drug use disorder. Diagnosis is based on a person’s symptoms. While most women experience a brief period of worry or unhappiness after delivery, postpartum depression should be suspected when symptoms are severe and last over two weeks.

47 Comments

  1. I gave birth 1 month before..and I'm having mood off feelings…it's my 2baby I expected this cz my during 1st baby after birth I had ppd for 2 monnth…this tine also..I cry alone ..I hope it wil go away❤️

  2. I was never a fan of long distance marital relationship and here i am dealing with same situation being a pp 3 weeks single parent . I am definitely in severe pp depression .

  3. I'm afraid of ever having kids because I already am pretty depressed so I think it wouldn't work, and I just like having time for myself

  4. It's not easy to discuss this issue as being a mother, you are being judged right away… where other mothers are bonding with their babies, you on the other hand are constantly worried, easily annoyed, or even start hating yourself thinking you can never become a good mother to your baby… what's worse is your child will suffer too… parental bond helps the baby to reach milestones at right time but you unintentionally deprive your child to do those as well…
    At such times, what I did was to meditate, pray and calm myself down, positive thinking is the key… when overwhelmed I use to ask help from my closed ones and gladly they did… my daughter is 2 now but still PPD haunts me… stay strong ladies… nothing in the world matters more than your child's health and happiness… God bless all!

  5. Postpartum depression and marriage problem .. shadi se phele in law bhi bhot ache ban kar rahte hai.. apni beti jaisa rakhenge but after marriage 😤 i will never forget their behaviour which was in my postpartum delivery.. which was never ever expected. I hate these relations.

  6. I’m going thru this now I have a two year old and now a one year old and I’m struggling financially and going thru a lot with my kids father I’m always tired and I’m losing weight my mom is now giving me a break before I have a break down I’m jus really tired and really ready to give up

  7. I am suffering from this depression..
    and the same things are going on in my life.. phele laga ki pagal ho rahi hu shayd ..
    raat bhar nind nhi aati.. feels lonely..
    Ghar ka mahol b bekar kar rakha h..
    thode time ke liye apne parents ke pass aai hu bas unhi ka support h abhi.
    husband ache hai lekin unka sath hona .. naa hona.. ek jaisa he lagta h..
    Samjh nhi aata kaha khushi dhundu..

  8. I had this after my son was born. I had it a week after delivery with C section. Stitches pain and severe kind of depression was just about to kill me. I had to go to a mental hospital with stiches on and had a treatment plan from a psychiatrist for a month. I never wanna go back to that situation 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

  9. I don't know why but all these facts make me feel like post partum is funny… want to lose your mind and end up getting electroshock therapy? have a baby! wanna add tension to your relationships? have a baby! it makes it seem like the last thing anyone wants… but I adore my son AND have some depression post partum.

  10. Sorry but you choose to have kid's and get stretched then it's 'boo hoo we demand sympathy' 🤣

    I know men who have beaten prostate cancer, something they've had no choice in whatsoever and you know what?

    They weren't half as 'wah wah I'm sad' as some of these women and the blokes were dying ffs 🤔

  11. Thank God , I've never wanted or had children, it not worth it! I think women have post depression because it's the soul telling them they just ruined their life

  12. No hormones r responsible..for me it's unsupportive husband . Toxic in-laws. Unwanted guests ..no support system. Neither from husband or any helper to do household chores

  13. I have MDD and I got PPD with anxiety… its ruined my relationship with my 10 year old who says he "hates me" bc "I never do anything with him" …. I am a "functioning" depressive… im a single mom and now have to work which literally takes ALL my energy. So when I am home I am in bed A LOT. my mother made a relationship with him and it really hurts me and its like I said… ruined my life. I pray for anybody that goes through this.

  14. Im raising my baby all alone no family support for either sides no child care had to pull her out I pay 1000 a week. I pay all my bills by myself I work over 19hours a day and even have my baby with me working. I don’t get a break sleep I barely can shower now I’m starting to feel like a zombie I’m sleep deprived. I went to work today and felt so unmotivated I went home and slept in my car. I can’t get any true sleep unless I’m separated from my child I gotta sleep in my car and I hate it. I hate how I’m all alone. And I contemplate on giving her up. I love her but it’s too hard for me especially by myself.

  15. If you have a good mother who can tell and support you, your problem will solve,
    Unfortunately there are many including me who doesn't have 'mother' in real its real meaning.
    Only because we deliver a woman will not be mother, its the mind and sacrifice of a woman makes her mother…

  16. The exact causes are “unknown” lol, let’s be honest with ourselves and say that it’s due to women not wanting the kid and that being a parent fkn sucks most of the time, especially for women. A lot of straight women don’t want to be mothers but they also don’t do abortions so they have to live with this life altering decision of having and raising a kid they didn’t want in the first place. I don’t have children and the people I know that have children ALWAYS admit sooner or later how much it fkn sucks. I would bet BIG money on the guarantee that postpartum rates are going to rise now that abortion is illegal in most states. Forcing women to have kids they don’t want is not a good idea for anyone.

  17. I had to stop the video half way because I felt like it as going on and on about the obvious. Me and my baby nearly died at childbirth. We had an awful experience afterwards in hospital. Horrible experience coming home, we're not sleeping or eating properly, I've been stuck in the house the last 7 weeks because I'm still recovering. The midwifes didn't show us anything on how to take care of a baby, we just had to learn. It's stressful, awfully stressful. Right now the whole thing doesn't seem worth it, I feel like crap emotionally and physically. I feel like whatever I do is never good enough, but I have to take everyday as it comes. Yes I've got a cute baby, but he is a handful. And I'm a first time mam, not like I had an experience in this. I'm just learning as I go along. So yes it's crap, but I'm just taking one day as it comes. I'm depressed but I still love my son, and it's my job to make him happy and healthy, even if that means im a mess.

  18. Mine started in my 3rd trimester. Will this go away on its own??, and how long does it take? Its been since the end of june and sometimes i feel like im going crazy. Ive known my husband since 2011 and we never fought or argued and now we arnt getting along. I was perscribed 10mg lexapro and it made me have this really heavy feeling and after day 3 i just couldnt handle it anymore. It got put down to 5 mg but I am terrified of taking it or anything. Also, I have a uti which im taking an antibiotic for and found out i have a vitamin d deficiency today so i just started on a 5000iu d3 pill. Im curious if the d3 pill is all I'll need? Im really scared of antidepressants. I want help so bad but im justvsonscared ti take anything. Is there anything natural that would take this away? And soon…its already been a month since i had my baby…i want to be better now 😞

  19. A guy here as well, many guys are starting it all out like this. Even i, a guy, knows exactly how you avoid postpartum depression and I can vouch for it given i have an aunt who had three kids whom she wanted to just "off entirely" and then a fourth kid where she finally avoided PPD entirely and Im gonna share what it was that allowed her to avoid it since it was all my idea and it seems to have worked. Ok rewind a second, it wasnt my idea at all…but i suggested she try it. And many of you aren't gonna like it. But i thought, "how is it that other animals don't have PPD to the point we do?" Well, they avoid it by doing what that idea is, as most of them have the instinct to take care of PPD entirely. And i would say that it is because your body isn't ready to just dump that amount of hormones entirely and not look back. So what do animals all do? They almost all eat the afterbirthbafter they have given birth. Wo i suggested to my aunt that she must be dumping too many hormones for her body to keep functioning and i told her to hire a placenta chef and she did. She said it was night and day. She didnt have a single negative thought about that fourth baby. And i gaurantee that in our more natural settings thousands of years ago, just like the other animals do, i have a feeling that human mothers ALSO ate their placentas after delivering. It doesn't sound appetizing or fun. I get it. But that is because it is not a 5 star gastronomical experience, but a health minded natural reintake of those hormones that your body has dumped temporarily, but i am sure expects to be reintroduced into the body. Someone will be rich when he or she discovers a way to strip the placenta of its hormones and positive substances and re introduce it to the body via injection or something. There has got to be a way better than eating it to put it back into you, but the fact almost all animals do it this way tells me that is how nature intends for it to be avoided. I bet you though that in 100 years, before mom leaves the hospital, her placenta will be taken to a lab near the obstatricians's delivery place where the placenta will be turned into an IV bag they will hang for her before she leaves her room.

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