Re: Postpartum depression

hoosieroriginal · ‎03-04-2012

I remember when Chrissy Tiegen had her baby and they photographed her out to dinner with her husband a couple days later - I'm sure all the comments that she "should have been home with the baby" made it even worse for her. Her DH was just trying to help her by getting her out of the house for a nice evening.

software · ‎06-08-2016

It's not "mental" and it's very complicated. Not the same for every person.

@qualitygal wrote:
@ECBG wrote:
Oh, yes it is real. I taught about it in one of my senior courses.

We had a friend who was a doctor. His brother, a psychiatrist, and wife had just had their third child. The psy. came home one day and the worst imaginable had happened. She had taken their lives. He didn't have a clue. So very, very sad.
@ECBG, Do they know if it's due to what the body lost possibly during childbirth, or if it is more mental? I didn't have it, but when I see reports of women killing their children, I forget to think about this area, when I say, why? Can you shed some light?

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

I remember when they called it "baby blues" and mothers were told to just "snap out of it" and "stop being selfish" and "you aren't only woman who ever had a baby". No one had any sympathy and we didn't really have any sympathy for ourselves because we didn't understand it. We were supposed to be happy. Yes, I went through it with my second baby but I had never heard of the term postpartum depression. I just knew that I didn't feel the joy and happiness that I'd felt 14 months previously when I had my first. I wasn't sad or depressed, I just didn't feel anything. I was numb and I felt ashamed because I had everything. So, I faked it. I pretended that everything was hunky dory. If I seemed down, I blamed it on being tired or the babies keeping me awake at night. I didn't understand it myself. I think that is when I started to self medicate on food. I think that's when I found solace in my bags of Oreos and my chips and my Ben & Jerry's. Gradually, I did snap out of it. Two years and 100lbs later. Everyone know it's a real diagnosis now and there is help and medication and treatment but it wasn't like that 30 years ago.

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

@hoosieroriginal wrote:
Remember when Tom Cruise went on the Today Show with Matt Lauer and said post-partum depression wasn't real? Of course, it would be a man that would make such an idiotic statement. I forget which actress had just talked about having it and then he came on and said it wasn't real - was it Brooke Shields?

You also have to take in to acount that Scientology also play a huge part in the belief that mental issues are not real, and that pharmaceuticals are not needed to treat it.

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

There is also Postpartum Psychosis, which is worse than Postpartum depression.

Glitter51 · ‎08-23-2010

PPD is a real thing for sure! I suffered from it after the birth of my daughter. I didn't really tell anybody that I was suffering from it except my dr. He wanted to put me on medication but bc I was breast feeding, I was hesitant. I was so embarrassed about my feelings, all I wanted to do was cry and stay in bed!!! I didn't want anything to do with my new baby. But eventually it got better. It took me about 2 months to start feeling better. I would advise any new mom to get the help that is needed bc it's nothing to be ashamed of.