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really quickly.
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We're going to go over the basic definition of mental illness a health condition
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that is causing or is responsible for shifts in your behavior or emotions.
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Most mental illnesses come from distress and on
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problems functioning in social work or family activities.
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Most of you have probably come across the term baby blues,
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80% of women after postpartum experience it a short period
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after giving birth is filled with episodes of sadness,
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anxiety, stress and mood swings
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can be irritated, overwhelmed, exhausted and anxious
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Postpartum Depression.
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PTSD is a complete mix of physical emotional and behavioral changes
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that happened in around 15-20% of women after giving birth.
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Postpartum Depression is a
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disorder and requires treatment and attention to help the patient recover
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causes of P. D. D.
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Can include active or past abuse, prenatal depression,
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lack of social support for a relationship with spouses of partners,
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family history of depression or other mental
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illnesses,
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symptoms of PTSD include loss of appetite, excessive crying or fatigue,
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difficulty bonding with your baby, restlessness, insomnia,
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anxiety and panic attacks, feeling intensely overwhelmed, angry,
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hopeless or shameful
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isolation or loneliness,
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sometimes feeling like you're harm to yourself or your baby.
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The onset age of this mental illness depends
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but most, but for
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Research shows that when compared with women aged 25-29 years,
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women older than 35 years had a statistically significant increase in p. t. d. risk
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the diagnosis.
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Well
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basically start with when your family physician or any
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doctor will do an assessment of psychiatrist disorders,
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both prior to and during your pregnancy.
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Your doctor may ask you to complete a
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questionnaire that will do blood tests to rule out
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to rule out symptoms and the causes, check your hormone levels and
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good tool that doctors uses.
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The Edinburgh postnatal depression scale and
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you will be routinely screened for pTSD
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treatment options and vary from your vary from every mother and every patient if
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you are breastfeeding and you have mild symptoms and not concerning the doctors.
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First approach will be psychotherapy.
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It's an approach that it gradually helps individuals change their behavior,
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Supportive counseling, increased social support from friends and family.
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More emotional support from
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spouses could help too.
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If you feel like an increase in severity, do a follow up with your doctor.
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The doctor will suggest antidepressants as your first treatment.
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You have to wait 90
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89 hours if you are breastfeeding, if you and you are on medication,
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return or relaxation or a massage or other options.
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True
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stigma,
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there has been stigma associated with the famous for a long
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time and most of it comes from when a baby,
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When a mom is not happy on the child of the birth of a child that's looked down upon
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and most in most households,
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mental illness is frowned upon and not taken seriously.
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It's often ignored and
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just blamed on hormonal imbalances or mood swings.
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It's seen as a shameful thing or a character flaw for a mother to react like this
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mystery of the mental illness.
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Melanie Stokes who have committed suicide in Chicago in 2000 and
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one after suffering from postpartum depression is a well known example.
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Her name is now associated with recent legislation to promote P. T. D.
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Research and advocacy. Even so,
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medical professionals have not long
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been supportive of postpartum depression treatment
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Question occurring during the postpartum period,
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was not recognized by the psychiatrist community until the 4th edition
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of its diagnostic and statistical manual was published in 1994.
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Okay,
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on March 1920 19,
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Jamie's Jaime McGuire's research was proven to be beneficial as the
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FDA approved the world's first drug made specifically for P.
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T. D.
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In adults. The drug is called bricks and All
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thanks.
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A popular popular cultural representations of P. T. D.
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I found Brooke Shield a famous case.
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Dad,
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she was quote shared. She shared a quote from the opening page of Shields memoir
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