What causes post-natal depression, and how can a friend help?
var html_compressed = ‘ by Alatea ‘; document.write(html_compressed); var html_compressed = ‘ on February 16th, 2006 ‘; document.write(html_compressed); Postnatal Depression is what happens when you become depressed after having a baby. Sometimes, there may be an obvious reason, often there is none. It can be particularly distressing when you have so looked forward to having your baby through the months of pregnancy. You may feel guilty for feeling like this, or even feel that you can’t cope with being a mother. Around one in every ten women have PND after having a baby. If untreated, it can last for months, or sometimes longer. You feel low, unhappy and wretched for much or all of the time. You may feel worse at particular times of the day, like mornings or evenings. Sometimes, there are good days that make you hope that it is over. It can be very disappointing when they are followed by bad days. Sometimes, it can seem that life is not worth living. All new mothers get pretty weary, b
