Postpartum depression is a HUGE deal and it doesn’t get enough coverage.
In becoming a mother you loose a lot of the freedom and opportunities that you once had because you need to be there for a child. While motherhood can be beautiful and rewarding, it comes with a lot of sacrifice and this can be a very difficult transition for a new parent, especially a very young one who may have had dreams outside of being a wife and mother that will now go unfullfilled.
In addition to this loss of freedom, many women experience POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION after giving birth, which is like a super bad depression caused by all of the pregnancy hormone changes fucking with your brain. Read up on it! It’s super interesting, but like in a sad human way, and a lot of women’s health stuff like this does not get talked about enough. THANK YOU AUTHOR
Fun fact There is also postpartum psychosis, which is much rarer (effects about 2 in 10000 women) and leads to sorta schizophrenic/bipolar psychotic episodes in women who before their pregnancy had basically been neurotypical regular janes. It’s absolutely terrifying cuz it might happen to anybody and it can get to moms-drowning-babies-in-the-bathtub levels of bad when untreated. (Family history of bipolar disorder is loosely linked as a risk factor)
Postpartum depression is a HUGE deal and it doesn’t get enough coverage.
In becoming a mother you loose a lot of the freedom and opportunities that you once had because you need to be there for a child. While motherhood can be beautiful and rewarding, it comes with a lot of sacrifice and this can be a very difficult transition for a new parent, especially a very young one who may have had dreams outside of being a wife and mother that will now go unfullfilled.
In addition to this loss of freedom, many women experience POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION after giving birth, which is like a super bad depression caused by all of the pregnancy hormone changes fucking with your brain. Read up on it! It’s super interesting, but like in a sad human way, and a lot of women’s health stuff like this does not get talked about enough. THANK YOU AUTHOR
Fun fact
There is also postpartum psychosis, which is much rarer (effects about 2 in 10000 women) and leads to sorta schizophrenic/bipolar psychotic episodes in women who before their pregnancy had basically been neurotypical regular janes. It’s absolutely terrifying cuz it might happen to anybody and it can get to moms-drowning-babies-in-the-bathtub levels of bad when untreated. (Family history of bipolar disorder is loosely linked as a risk factor)