The signs of postpartum depression women must know to protect themselves

What are the signs of postpartum depression do you know? Currently, the number of women suffering postpartum depression is increasing, leading to very serious consequences. Depression can be treated completely if detected in time, so it is extremely important to recognize the signs of depression after giving birth.

The following are signs of depression that women can identify to protect themselves:

Signs of postpartum depression

1. Persistent sadness and fatigue for unknown reasons

Many women feel more and more sad after giving birth, even crying all day for no specific reason. Sometimes they feel abandoned by their husbands, families, and friends. These feelings are often unfounded.

These women can fall into a state of constant fatigue, indifference to housework and to themselves. Even if it was for minimal things like bathing, grooming, they didn't care about it. They always exude fatigue, lack of vitality.

2. Excessive anxiety

Concerns (usually about health) arise in depressed women. They will feel great pain somewhere on their body, but the doctor will not be able to find out the cause.

Be it headaches, neck pain, limbs or lung pain, chest pain ... These worries increasingly make them more stress and make the disease worse.

Besides, sometimes they feel stressed and lack confidence when leaving the house. They refuse to meet close friends, refuse to answer phone calls or letters. In this case, the family should invite a doctor for home treatment.

3. Stress

Stress is a typical symptom of depression. Stressful mothers often experience more severe depression. They are often difficult to relax, sometimes feeling like they want to explode.

This type of stress cannot be resolved with sedatives, but must be treated with psychotherapy.

4. Panic

When a mother suffers from depression, a mother can feel panicked by everyday situations, even when it is normal for those around her.

Even when reassured, they could hardly calm down. Therefore, it is best to help them avoid situations that are at risk of frightening or stressing them.

5. Loss of concentration

It is often difficult for a depressed mother to concentrate on reading, watching TV or talking normally. They often feel that their memory is so poor, and sometimes unable to organize their thoughts.

So they can sit there doing nothing, just thinking they feel bad.

6. Change in eating habits

In a depressed state, many mothers cope with their food or drink, or worse still, feel completely indifferent to food, making the state increasingly ill. Or vice versa, they suddenly eat more than usual, causing the body to gain weight quickly.

7. Feeling obsessed

From a particular person, situation or activity can make a depressed mother obsess. They believe that person, that activity can cause danger.

Or there are some instances where they become obsessed with being a danger to family members, especially the child. These obsessions are often accompanied by guilt.

8. Sleep Disorders

Most mothers with postpartum depression often lose sleep. They often wake up halfway and from there they can stay awake until dawn, sometimes they have nightmares and cannot sleep again, in some cases unable to nap until almost morning.

In these cases, even if sleeping pills are prescribed, they cannot sleep. Because the cause of their insomnia is depression, need cure of depression to make them sleep.

9. Sudden loss of interest

Maybe in the past, mothers had some special interests such as reading books, listening to music, practicing yoga ... but suddenly they stopped activities related to that interest without feeling any regrets. As with sexual activity, they lose any interest and try to avoid it.

10. Thinking of death, wanting to commit suicide

This is a sign of severe postpartum depression. According to statistics, up to 41.2% of mothers suffering from postpartum depression often have suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

Not stopping there, they also often have the intention of revenge, dealing with their husbands and children. Not only do they want to commit suicide, but they also want to bring their loved ones to commit suicide.

They do all this unconsciously and paranoid.

The cause of postpartum depression is not the mother alone, but also influenced by many external factors.

Treating depression takes time, in which the help from family, relatives and friends is extremely important, not only sincerity, but also extremely skillful.

However, the family and the mother herself need preparation and prevention in advance. You should create and maintain a happy atmosphere, regularly talk and share the burden of caring for your new baby so that women do not feel lonely, avoid negative thoughts that gradually push the mother closer to the depression cold.

See more:

Postpartum depression: Causes and prevention

What is depression?

Prevent depression in children? WebTech360 Vietnam