by Katherine Stone |
Current Psychiatry reports on clues about whether a postpartum woman has bipolar disorder instead of postpartum depression. This is important, because many of the postpartum depression screening tools do not look for these types of symptoms. These clues include: being... by Katherine Stone |
One evening, I waited impatiently for my husband to come home from work. It was another one of “those” postpartum depression days and I needed to be rescued. Not that my son was being a pain, it was because I was sinking in my own shoes. When he walked in... by Katherine Stone |
The absolute last thing you desired or even considered upon having a baby is the need to show up in a psychotherapist’s office to talk about postpartum depression. Dreaming about life with a baby usually involves ideas about long and warm cuddles, of peaceful walks... by Katherine Stone |
I reached out again to our Facebook fans to see if anyone wanted to share their story of postpartum depression after treatment for infertility, and was so pleased to receive the following story from the blogger at a.k.a. mrs. X. Going through infertility treatments... by Katherine Stone |
Ten years. How can it be ten years already? It was on June 20, 2001, that the tragedy happened. Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the midst of postpartum psychosis. That was just a few months before my sweet boy, my first child, was born in September. In the...