Post Natal Depression

Post Natal Depression
In popular accounts, the symptoms and causes of post natal depression are routinely taken to be directly related to the physiologic of childbirth, particularly the hormone changes that take place following labor, although sometimes physical exhaustion is acknowledge as playing its part.

These explanations, presented so simply and unproblematically, comprise as substantial, component of the corpus of knowledge on post natal depression, which has taken on a new lease of life within and between the social and clinical sciences over the past twenty years, specifically gathering momentum in the 1990s.

The research literature on post natal depression spans the course of a century, although the emphasis and focus has varied concern with severe psychiatric illness to clinical depression, ‘maternity blues’ and most recently, the impact of maternal depression on the family.

Post natal depression is defined somewhat tautological as depression that occurs during the first twelve months following the childbirth.

The origin of this ‘cut-off’ stems from the work of Marce, a nineteenth century French psychiatrist who drew attention to the view that ‘postpartum illness’ was separate in time and type from other psychiatric disorders.

This view has proved compelling in clinical circles, established in 1982 and continuing to flourish, for the study of motherhood and mental illness.

Within the time span of twelve post natal months, however, there is a relative deficiency in the information about duration and course.

Some evidence suggests post natal depression lasts from six to eight weeks whereas other studies suggest that problems may persist throughout the first year.
Post Natal Depression