For more on this, you might like The Rage of Postpartum Depression.Ģ) Brain Fog: For many of us, our brains just don’t work as well when we have postpartum depression and anxiety. Some of you tell me you know that you shouldn’t be so mad all the time, but you can’t help it, and you’re worried about how rough you are being with the people you love. You might want to throw things, or yell at everyone. Or your baby, or partner, or older children are irritating you at a level that you have never felt before. It may be that everything makes you angry. Surprising Symptoms of Postpartum Depressionġ) Anger: In all the years that I’ve spoken to mothers about postpartum depression, they are always most surprised by rage and irritability as symptoms of postpartum depression. That is why, for this installment of Postpartum Progress’ Six Things series we are focusing on the six symptoms of postpartum depression and anxiety that will likely surprise you.
One size does not fit all, I always say, and one woman with PPD may look and sound completely different from the next one. The truth is there are a wide variety of symptoms pregnant and new mothers may experience when it comes to having antenatal or postpartum depression or anxiety. We often think we’ve simply gone crazy, or there’s something else drastically wrong with us… but not depression. If we don’t look like that woman in the TV ad, then we’re not sure we even have depression or anxiety. Depression equals sadness, crying, and despair. We’ve learned to believe what depression looks like from television commercials for Prozac or Zoloft. That is the picture most people see when they think of the symptoms of postpartum depression. On her face is a look of sadness and a faraway stare.
Her hair is mussed and she’s not wearing makeup.
She’s wearing rumpled sweatpants and a t-shirt. The woman is sitting on the side of her bed.
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