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Dear Friend,Depression is never easy whether you've just had a baby or not, life is tough on a good day. For Christians it seems even harder because we are supposed to have God on our side. Meanwhile, we are entertaining unusual thoughts and feelings. You may think you'll be fine because of your faith or support network but you may also feel like you're losing your mind at times, I know I did!Post pregnancy or post partum depression (PPD) is often suffered in silence for fear of embarrassment, shame or guilt. This may be your first pregnancy or this could be your third pregnancy. Regardless of the situation, you've got to take care of this new little gift and yet you're struggling to get through the day. Take heart! You're not alone and you are definitely NOT a failure for feeling like this!There are many causes for PPD and various levels of severity.It's different for everyone.There is help if you're willing to ask. There are prayer groups, support groups and various options from medical professionals. This publication contains the stories of how three women dealt with PPD and also includes helpful submissions from a medical doctor and a pastor.It is my hope that as you read each page you'll be encouraged.Remember that God is closer than you think even though you may not 'feel' it at the moment.In Psalm 34:18 it says, "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."There Is Hope!Janice ... Read more

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For the helpless sufferers of Post-Partum Depression...
This book was extremely helpful in allowing one to understand the consequences of chemical changes that occur during and after childbirth.It is both helpful to those going through PPD and those in with whoms loved ones suffer from PPD.The book offers a plethura of information and places to obtain even more help in regards to Post-Partum Depression.I don't care what Tom Cruise has to say about it....his comments regarding PPD where irresponsible and unintelligent.He has no idea what it is like to suffer from an affliction such as PPD, one which is beyond the control of the sufferer.If you need a more fruitful understanding of this disease and it's terrible affects, please, read this book. ... Read more

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"Be encouraged, equipped, strengthened, and restored through this intimate journey into birth, motherhood, postpartum depression, anxiety and perinatal mood disorders. This nine-week small group Bible study does an amazing job of responsibly explaining the many facets of postpartum depression and how to grow through them sprinkled with God's all powerful words of wisdom." Judy Dippel can sincerely say, "I know how you feel." She has experienced postpartum depression, anxiety and panic, with her first pregnancy, to a much lesser degree with her second. As a writer and speaker, Judy says that it's a privilege to share how God made himself known to her during her postpartum depression. Judy is genuine and real. It's her passion to communicate frankly about life's realities-joys and sorrows. God's message of grace, truth andwisdom impacts and influences them both in real life. Her desire is to help equip women to acknowledge, accept, and adapt as they grow through life's variety of circumstances. Judy has worked as a medical assistant in OB-GYNand Internal Medicine. She's worked in public education, international adoption, and Corporate America. She's been married to Mark since 1970. Her two adult children are married, and she is grandma to three grandchildren.Do you suddenly feel like a stranger to yourself?Are you feeling out-of-whack-physically, mentally, emotionally,or spiritually?Have you always felt the birth of your child would be the happiesttime of your life, but it isn't? Know you're not alone- it's not your fault andyou will get better! ... Read more

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very significant for hurting moms
When I gave birth to my second child 33 years ago, I may have experienced postpartum depression. But I didn't know that the stress, anger, and suicidal depression had a name. I just thought I was a horrible person. Thankfully, because of Judy Dippel's valuable work, fewer women will suffer from this little-identified disease. Read and study this book to prepare yourself or to know you're not alone and there is hope. ... Read more

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L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans une perspectivecompréhensive psychodynamique. Cette approche estissue de lafusion des théories interactionnistesde Georges Hébert Mead et de celles de lapsychopathologie et de la psychodynamique du travailde Christophe Dejours. L'objectif est des'interroger sur le rôle de la dépression maternelleen lien avec le développement et l'avenir social del'enfant. Il s'agit ici de mettre en valeurl'organisation de soins de la mère comme un travailqui aura des conséquences sur l'expérience et sur ledéveloppement de l'enfant. Le présent ouvragesoutient, d'une part, que les différents types derelations que l'enfant a eues dans sa famille, etcela depuis le début de sa vie, vont s'enraciner etse répéter, voire s'amplifier dans son histoire devie; d'autre part, que les conduites individuellesconstituent le fruit de l'expérience issue desinteractions que forment la mère et l'enfant ainsique la résultante de la présence ou non detriangulation avec le père. ... Read more

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Ce nouveau guide sur la dépression du post-partum (DPP) est à la fois pratique et fondé sur l'expérience clinique. Il présente les meilleures et plus récentes études sur la DPP ainsi que l'expérience pratique dans le domaine. La dépression du post-partum a été spécialement élaboré dans le but de répondre aux besoins des fournisseurs de services sociaux et de santé de première ligne qui travaillent auprès des femmes qui attendent un enfant ou viennent de donner naissance. Il offre une perspective spécifiquement canadienne et traite des problèmes de diversité plus en profondeur que les ressources existantes. Ce guide est le résultat d'un partenariat entre CAMH, Journey Support Services, le University Health Network, Meilleur départ, et le Service de Santé publique de Toronto.Ce guide a pour but d'aider les intervenantes et intervenants de première ligne de reconnaître la DPP et de permettre aux femmes et à leur famille d'obtenir le soutien dont elles ont besoin. Il comprend de l'information sur :• les facteurs de risques de la DPP ;• la détection et le dépistage de la DPP ;• la prévention ;• le choix de traitements ;• l'aiguillage vers des services d'évaluation et de traitement ;• le soutien aux membres de la famille ;• l'autogestion de la santé des femmes ;• les questions de diversité en ce qui concerne la DPP.Il comprend également plusieurs études de cas représentatives. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Researches about influence of post-partum depression on the nature of mother-infant interactions show correlations between two measurements taken to the same moment: scores of depression and the quality of the interaction. This bond of linear causality was called in question and reverses by a whole current of research being interested in the characteristics of the infant. We pose the assumption that infant temperament, especially neonatal irritability, affects mother-child relation what can contribute to the emergence of the maternal depression. At 3 days, using the scale of Brazelton, we observe neonatal irritability of 67 babies. Then, the mothers filled the Kennerley's questionnaire so that we evaluate the intensity of post-partum blues. At 2 months, we re-examined 45 dyads. To evaluate the nature of the interactive patterns, we filmed a situation of ''free play'' which was analysed according to Care-Index of Crittenden. Finally, we used EPDS to evaluate depressive mothers. Results indicate that the percentage of irritable neonate is more important in the group of depressive mothers (34%) compared to the group of the not-depressive mothers (26%). Analysis of depressive mother-babies interactions at 8 weeks point out 4 mothers out of 6 to be controlling. Interactive disengagement behaviours are more numerous in the nondepressive mothers who are characterized either by a high score of blues at 3 days, either by the score 0 to the EPDS at 2 months and which have in 50% of the cases non-irritable new-borns. s. ... Read more

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A leading expert on postpartum depression offers new mothers an insightful, medically sound guide to recovery

A full 20 percent of new moms will be affected by PPD--but the good news is that PPD is very responsive to treatment. This guide, written by psychiatrist and internationally acclaimed PPD specialist Ariel Dalfen, leads women out of the maze of depression, offering medical and psychotherapeutic options, practical lifestyle changes, and an impressive array of resources for further support. Complete with a PPD diagnosis questionnaire, a treatment plan checklist, and a table of medications and side effects, this upbeat guide also includes daily affirmations used by Dr. Dalfen's own patients when recovering from PPD.

Dr. Ariel Dalfen (Toronto, ON) is a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and an acclaimed lecturer and medical researcher in the area of post-partum depression. ... Read more

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The Best Resource for Pregnant Women, New Moms, their loved ones, and health care Providers!
As a family doctor I have read many books on this subject, but this one is by far the best book for women, their loved ones, and anyone (including medical practitioners) who care for them. Easy to read, a wealth of research, and many resources-- the book is concise, articulate, and a source of information you will find yourself turning to over and over again, and recommending often. ... Read more

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Discover the secret to beating Post Natal Depression. Follow the 10 Immediate actions that mother of 2, Shona Hicks followed to bring back the joy and happiness that she thought was lost forever.

Shona is a mother of two who suffered from a severe case of post natal depression after her second child. Not understanding her symptoms or knowing where to turn she battled alone for 6 months . Doctors sent her away with scripts for anti-depressants, but all she really wanted was an understanding of what was happening to her and a way to feel normal again.

This book explains the symptoms that Shona experienced and shares the story of how she came to understand and beat post natal depression on her own without medication. After 6 months of waiting Shona commenced a course in adjusting to baby and change, which also assisted in her recovery. The 10 exact steps that Shona followed are provided in this book and are a combination of her own methods plus methods learnt in the 9 week course that she attended.

Postnatal depression is a mood disorder that can be beaten. It is not to be feared and it is not permanent.

This book has been written in the hope that it will reach other women who are suffering from PND. Both women who are already receiving help, and others who may be hesitant to ask for help outside their own front doorstep. It has been written with first hand experience of the illness, an important aspect of the book as anyone who suffers with PND knows how alienated they can feel as well as how hard it is for anyone to understand PND unless they have been through it themselves.

The author hopes to assist her readers to achieve a fast recovery.
There is no need to feel alone . Start now and get your life back. ... Read more

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A booklet that describes the symptoms, treatment and factors contributing to depression that are unique to women.
This booklet is also for family and friends that are looking for further understanding of this disorder.

In this Booklet You Will Learn:

What is depression?
What are the different forms of depression?
What are the basic symptoms of depression?
What causes depression in women?
What illnesses often coexist with depression in women?
How does depression affect adolescent girls?
How does depression affect older women?
How is depression diagnosed and treated?
What efforts are underway to improve treatment?
How can I help a friend or relative who is depressed?
How can I help myself if I am depressed?
Where can I go for help?
What if I or someone I know is in crisis?

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You Can't Get Any Better Information
This Book comes straight from the US Government.If you trust the US Government, this book will give you all the information you need about Women and Depression that is current. ... Read more

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AN OPEN LETTER TO RUSSELL YATESAs the husband of Andrea Yates who drowned her children “to save them from life,” I always thought it was remarkable how you hung in there in the face of that tragedy. You told us what a wonderful wife and mother she was, of her post-partum problems after each baby, so close together. We knew she had nursed them and home-schooled them. And the awful failure of medicine to help!But now you tell us you are dating, and even if she wins acquittal in her new trial and is freed, “I cannot forgive her for what she has done to me.”What do you mean, TO YOU?Whatever she has done to you she has done to herself many times over. Have you forgotten how sick she was? As sick as anyone has ever been…or can ever imagine being!MAs the guardian of that family, WHERE WERE YOU?I admit to prejudice and naivety, but I pray for her jury this time will be true peers. At the very least, women. Mothers. Or best of al, those who have “been there.”Remember, Russell, the whole world is watching.MEDICAL NOTE: The simple testing described in this book was the forerunner of several methods which have now proven more useful and less cumbersome…and would eventually widen the handling of such important disorders as CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, CHRONIC FATIGUE, FIBROMYALGIA, ASTHMA, ARTHRITIS, LOSS OF LIBIDO, MENSTRUAL DIFFICULTIES and MENT ILLNESSES such as NEUROSIS, BI-POLAR, TOXIC PSYCHOSIS, AUTISM and SCHIZOPHRENIA.S. Crawford Duhon, Enviromental M.D. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Hormones and Behavior, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Post-partum stress and depression (PPD) have a significant effect on child development and behavior. Depression is associated with hypercortisolism in humans, and the fluctuating levels of hormones, including corticosterone, during pregnancy and the post-partum, may contribute to PPD. The present study was developed to investigate the effects of high-level corticosterone (CORT) post-partum in the mother on postnatal neurogenesis and behavior in the offspring. Sprague-Dawley dams were treated with either CORT (40 mg/kg) or sesame oil injections daily for 26 days beginning the day after giving birth. Dams were tested in the forced swim test (FST) and in the open field test (OFT) on days 24-26 post-partum. Results showed that the dams exposed to CORT expressed ''depressive-like'' behavior compared to controls, with decreased struggling behavior and increased immobility in the FST. To investigate the effects of treatment on hippocampal postnatal cell proliferation and survival in the offspring, males and females from treated dams were injected with BrdU (50 mg/kg) on postnatal day 21 and perfused either 24 h (cell proliferation) or 21 days (cell survival) later. Furthermore, male and female offspring from each litter were tested in adulthood on various behavioral tests, including the forced swim test, open field test, resistance to capture test and elevated plus maze. Intriguingly, male, but not female, offspring of CORT-treated dams exhibited decreased postnatal cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus. Both male and female offspring of CORT-treated dams showed higher resistance to capture and greater locomotor activity as assessed in the open field test. As high levels of CORT may be a characteristic of stress and/or depression, these findings support a model of 'CORT-induced' post-partum stress and possibly depression and demonstrate that the offspring of affected dams can exhibit changes in postnatal neurogenesis and behavior in adulthood. ... Read more

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In 1989 I experienced a Post Partum Psychosis after the birth of our oldest daughter Michelle.

I was court ordered to take a cocktail of psychiatric medicines for 14 months.

During the past 20 years I have given birth to four additional children and have not taken one psychiatric pill for emotional illness.

This is my story of healing after being emotionally raped by the psychiatric profession.

Jenny Hatch Blog: The Natural Family BLOG

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Jenny is the Editor in Chief of Bloggiing Mothers Magazine

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Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman with active table of contents.Works include:

The Crux
The Forerunner, vol 1, A Monthly Magazine
Herland, for Mother's Day
Our Androcentric Culture or, The Man-made World
What Diantha Did
The Yellow Wallpaper
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In 1989 I experienced a Post Partum Psychosis after the birth of our oldest daughter Michelle.

I was court ordered to take a cocktail of psychiatric medicines for 14 months.

During the past 20 years I have given birth to four additional children and have not taken one psychiatric pill for emotional illness.

This is my story of healing after being emotionally raped by the psychiatric profession. ... Read more

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Clinical depression is a serious, often fatal illness that is so common it’s hard to recognize. Researchers estimate that almost 20 percent of the population meets the criteria for some form of depression at any given time. And that doesn’t mean people who are temporarily feeling the blues and will be better next week, but people who are having real difficulty functioning in life ... Read more