Signs and Symptoms of Post-partum Depression

The birth of another life is meant to be a highly important and meaningful event in every woman’s life. They go through a roller coaster of emotions at such a situation, which involves feeling on top of the world to be blessed with a baby, along with the natural fear and anxiety about the whole experience. However, for some women it becomes a negative event that results in great depression.

Approximately eighty percent of women, who have recently become mothers, suffer from mood swings that bother them a lot. They may feel upset and detached from the baby and the rest of the family, and may not feel affectionate towards the child.

At times, these emotions seem to linger for a long time and become a lot more intense in nature. Most families of such women become concerned about why she is not loving the child and being soft to him or her, like mothers are meant to be. It is important to understand that this condition is not triggered due to a fault in one’s personality. It takes place due to complications that occur due to changes in one’s hormonal activity.

The indications of depression relating to pregnancy, called postpartum depression, should not be confused with that of baby blues, as the main difference among them is that the latter are short term and do not stick for a long time. Some signs of postpartum are the following:

Such a woman may suffer from loss in appetite, insomnia, anger and irritability, decrease in sexual relations with the husband, not experiencing joy in any positive or happy moment, mood swings, highly negative and irrational thoughts about inflicting harm over the baby, and then feeling guilt about letting such thoughts enter one’s mind and not loving the child as a mother should.

On some occasions, mothers start worrying about the child’s health even when there is absolutely nothing wrong with the infant. They imagine all possible worst scenarios that they can think of concerning their baby. But, in actuality, everything is just in their thoughts.

Most importantly, suicidal thoughts may start to enter the mother’s mind and she may even attempt at taking her life. In such a situation, it is absolutely essential to seek treatment immediately.

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