by Katherine Stone |
[Editor’s Note: Happy to have the fab Robin Farr here today talking about what to do when you hit a bump on the road to recovery from PPD. -Katherine] In my last couple of posts (one for the Mother’s Day Rally and one of my regular contributions), I talked about... by Katherine Stone |
If you are reading this blog, you are one of us. Or you love or care for people like us. We are the 15% of new or pregnant moms who have postpartum depression, anxiety, psychosis or other related mood disorders. And we have all benefited greatly from the peer... by Katherine Stone |
Postpartum depression is really a combo-pack of nature and nurture, rather than what we have thought of as solely a “chemical imbalance.” Part of the cause of PPD is likely your genes, and part of the cause is likely what type of trauma, stress or... by Katherine Stone |
The new Diagnostic Statistical Manual — the DSM-V — has officially been released by the American Psychiatric Association. So what does it say about postpartum depression? Not what I thought it would. In the DSM-IV, to diagnose Major Depressive Disorder... by Katherine Stone |
How about getting some PPD — or la dépression post-natale — professional education in France this Fall? PSI’s Perinatal Mood Disorders Certificate Training will be held in Tain-l’Hermitage, France, located between Lyon and Avignon, on September...