During pregnancy most women expect to feel the joy of impending motherhood. But for many, it is replaced by depression. Although knowledge...
During pregnancy most women expect to feel the joy of impending motherhood. But for many, it is replaced by depression.
Although knowledge Depression has increased in recent years after birth, and to measure doctors usually the mothers of the symptoms of depression at other locations around pregnancy, it's been less studied.
A new study from the North-West University is one of the first, to judge according to the authors depression to motherhood in three stages with respect: before pregnancy, prenatal care and after birth.
The knowledge and anticipation, and women at different times feel is the key ", not dismissed as the Blues," said author Sheehan Fisher, a teacher of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.
Depression "is a serious disease that should be treated," he said.
Fisher and his co-authors found that more than a third of the women were depressed during pregnancy.
Their data showed 37 percent said they experienced depression in the nine months of pregnancy, 25 percent before pregnancy and 38 percent during the postpartum period.
All infertility disease undergo a big change of life - happy belly bump photos from other people in social networks to see, although not as happy - may be part of an equation of depression, women reported in a previous report.
Women in the 2015 Chicago Tribune story spoke so highly of depression that meant delaying a second child, or even lead to suicidal thoughts.
Despite the increased awareness about postpartum depression, this time less, the researchers found.
The study Northwest, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, symptoms during the postpartum period of four to six weeks valued at 727 women in Pittsburgh.
The research examines if a postpartum examination of the patient asked they felt depressed. They asked if the depression began before pregnancy, during pregnancy and after pregnancy.
The study found that, Fisher said that those with depressive symptoms that fall before experienced chronic major depression, with the highest levels of symptoms, including difficulty falling asleep or paranoia.
Depression, the longer it takes often begins before or during pregnancy because it is more likely that untreated, Fisher said.
Unlike postpartum depression during pregnancy have less publicly discussed, and there are no rules that guarantee the appropriate patient record.
This year the Working Group of the US Prevention Services is recommended that pregnant women can control depression.
"The review of the first key factor is," Fisher said.
Mental illness before, during and after pregnancy is "not a homogeneous disorder," he said.
Factors such as age, education, marital status and health insurance influenced anxiety and depression, as well.
Find out if women struggle is crucial for the treatment, Fisher said.
If a doctor does not know that a woman was upset in the third week of pregnancy, for example, when patients are able to balance after birth, depression one year can be achieved.
"Can change the severity over time," he said.
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