Anxiety And Tension
Postpartum Depression
Pregnancy makes women around the globe go through a
transformation in their bodies. When postpartum depression kicks in,
women often feel sluggish, unconnected to reality, and undergo several
other symptoms including depression. Women undergoing postpartum
depression (PPD) often go through uncontrollable bouts of crying without
seldom understanding the cause. Such women often think irrationally and
their emotions are often tangled. One minute they are struggling to go
to sleep and the next minute they can’t seem to wake up.
Once a baby is born the family, friends, mother and so forth a
suppose to join in a joyful expedition. Sometimes mothers go through
postpartum depression however, and the birth seems more like a curse
than a joyous moment. Instead of sharing a happy moment mothers often
feel a sense of guilt because they simply because they may resent the
birth of their baby.
All of a sudden, you begin feeling sadness,
despair, worthlessness, and insomnia kicks in. Then you go through panic
attacks while feeling a sense of shame. In addition, it doesn’t stop
there. Next you begin feeling fear of loosing control of your actions,
you start feeling like your mind is tumbling, and your concentration has
vanished. Still, you feel nausea, agitated, your heart races, and you
breathing is complicated. The symptoms are increasing as you feel an
imbalance level of worry toward your child, hopelessness since you have
no control, exhausted from all the mental changes, and suicidal because
you see no way out.
The battle is just beginning. Mothers than
suffer from postpartum depression often have an underlying psychological
impairment, possible biological imbalances, including Post traumatic
Stress if the mother undergoes a horrible birthing. Most professionals
will treat postpartum depression with antidepressants combining it with
therapy. It is important for mothers with postpartum depression to seek
help immediately, since the diagnose does not only affect the patient,
it affects everyone around you, including your baby.
Babies need
their mother, and when the mother is unable to provide emotional
nourishment and loving care, and then a baby will suffer as it grows
into adulthood. Just like any diagnose there are triggers that may
interrupt the mother, including difficult births, isolating one self,
death, changes in living arrangements, hereditary, financial
difficulties and so forth.
In most cases, doctors may prescribe
Valiums, Prozac, or Zoloft. It depends on the person, but for some
mothers one or the other medications work, while others have no results.
If you are suffering postpartum depression, it is also important for the
family to offer support and understanding.
Since, you may have
suicidal thoughts the last thing anyone needs to do is push you over the
edge. It is also important that the resentment you feel is not necessary
toward your baby. It could be that you resent an area of your life, or
an occurrence and the baby seems to be the target. You might want to try
listening to easy music when you feel a sense of loss, or episodes of
the diagnose erupt. Music has proven to heal the soul. In addition, you
might want to start exercising since this too has proven to do wonders
with people that suffer mental or physical illnesses. Exercise relieves
the mind often because you are doing something to better yourself and
improve your health.