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Knit One Purl One, Part 2: A Story of Postpartum Depression in the 60s | POSTPARTUM PROGRESS
Today we continue with part two of Gretchen Houser’s story on having postpartum depression in the 1960s: After a few hours, the ER doctor releases me to my concerned and perplexed husband with a diagnosis of “neurasthenia.” In the 19th century, neurasthenia was a catch-all diagnosis for certain female maladies when young married women or young mothers …