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    A Bout With Postpartum Depression

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    Postpartum depression is a type of severe depression that affects new mothers, with over 50% of Indian mothers experiencing it. It is caused by hormonal changes during and after pregnancy and can result in symptoms like sadness, mood swings, low energy, and changes in appetite. Left untreated, it poses risks like suicidal thoughts and can be more severe for mothers from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Treatment options include therapy, medication, and sharing feelings with a psychiatrist, while prevention may involve psychotherapy. It is an underrated issue that can negatively impact both mother and baby's well-being so awareness and treatment are important.

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    Postpartum depression is a type of severe depression that affects new mothers, with over 50% of Indian mothers experiencing it. It is caused by hormonal changes during and after pregnancy and can result in symptoms like sadness, mood swings, low energy, and changes in appetite. Left untreated, it poses risks like suicidal thoughts and can be more severe for mothers from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Treatment options include therapy, medication, and sharing feelings with a psychiatrist, while prevention may involve psychotherapy. It is an underrated issue that can negatively impact both mother and baby's well-being so awareness and treatment are important.

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    Postpartum depression is a type of severe depression that affects new mothers, with over 50% of Indian mothers experiencing it. It is caused by hormonal changes during and after pregnancy and can result in symptoms like sadness, mood swings, low energy, and changes in appetite. Left untreated, it poses risks like suicidal thoughts and can be more severe for mothers from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Treatment options include therapy, medication, and sharing feelings with a psychiatrist, while prevention may involve psychotherapy. It is an underrated issue that can negatively impact both mother and baby's well-being so awareness and treatment are important.

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    Postpartum depression is a type of severe depression that affects new mothers, with over 50% of Indian mothers experiencing it. It is caused by hormonal changes during and after pregnancy and can result in symptoms like sadness, mood swings, low energy, and changes in appetite. Left untreated, it poses risks like suicidal thoughts and can be more severe for mothers from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Treatment options include therapy, medication, and sharing feelings with a psychiatrist, while prevention may involve psychotherapy. It is an underrated issue that can negatively impact both mother and baby's well-being so awareness and treatment are important.

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    A Bout With Postpartum Depression

    If you’re a parent who just had a baby, chances of you going through a
    postpartum depression are one in four. And if you’re a mother, it is even
    worse; with more than 50% Indian mothers experiencing it. When your life
    gets a whole new meaning with parenthood, feelings of sadness, anxiety and
    low energy can be somewhat perplexing. That’s when you know you are
    experiencing a postpartum depression, and you’re not the only one.

    What is a postpartum depression?


    Often termed as ‘Baby Blues,’ which is a milder version of the depression,
    postpartum depression (PPD) affects new mothers weeks after childbirth. It
    is a long-lasting bout of severe depression which directly affects the
    mother’s health and mental condition. It branches out into sadness, severe
    mood swings, bipolar disorder, change in appetite, little energy, nonexistent
    libido among other symptoms.
    It’s often overlooked as a sign of weakness and fear to embrace parenthood,
    but it’s a bit more severe than that, though curable with proper psychotic
    treatment. Doctors believe that the depression is caused mostly due to
    massive hormonal imbalance during pregnancy, and also due to a
    considerable change in the lifestyle before and after childbirth. The latter
    sometimes affects fathers as well, as a result of which about 10% fathers
    experience PPD in their lifetime.

    The Risk Factors


    Postpartum depression can accentuate suicidal thoughts, mostly in the
    mother. As earlier stated, it affects the mother’s mental state and in many
    cases, leads her to commit suicide, unless treated with utmost love and care.
    Furthermore, statistics show that PPD affects many mothers from a low
    socioeconomic background and they may be 11 times more likely to
    experience PPD than mothers having a better background.
    Prevention and cure
    Since it is a type of depression, most cures can be obtained by therapy rather
    than a more mainstream process using medication. Cognitive behavioral
    therapy (CBT), inter personal therapy (IPT), are two of the most popular
    types of treatment that have found the most success among patients. Some
    doctors opine that PPD and Major depressive disorder (MDD) are different
    variants of the same depression, and hence, medicate patients accordingly.
    One way of preventing PPD is by psychotherapy (which is not as menacing
    as it sounds!), where the mother, overwhelmed by the new tasks of
    motherhood, can share her thoughts with a professional psychiatrist and get
    the pressure off of her chest.
    Ella Vos, a singer-songwriter who went through postpartum depression, has
    found music to be the biggest inspiration in healing herself.

    The postpartum depression is an underrated monster, which has the potential


    to ruin a new mother’s life and can affect the baby’s growth as well. Thus, to
    live the subsequent years, depression-free, it is essential for the mother to go
    through therapeutic to prevent it from affecting lives. And it is imperative to
    spread awareness regarding this growing monster; it should not be dwelled
    with, lightly.

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