Word: depressionitis
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But at about the sixth month, Nesi began experiencing panic attacks. Soon her intermittent anxiety evolved into full-blown depression. "I didn't want to get out of bed all day. I avoided people, kept crying a lot, didn't eat properly and even had second thoughts about having a...
Nesi's depression abated, but she continued to feel periodic pangs of sadness throughout the course of her pregnancy. On Oct. 27, 2006, when her first son was born, Nesi was overjoyed. But two weeks later, a powerful shift in mood overtook her, ballooning into an episode of postpartum depression...
Nesi's case is not unique. Psychologists say that many women who experience postpartum depression have had depressive symptoms during pregnancy or even earlier. A 2007 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that of 4,400 pregnant women, 457 were depressed postpartum, and nearly half of...
Over the past decade, researchers have increasingly focused on so-called antenatal depression (depression during pregnancy) and its effect not only on mothers but also on the development of the baby. In a new study published in the Feb. 5 issue of the journal Child Development, researchers found that children...
Hay's is not the first study to observe an association between negative behavior in children and mothers' antenatal depression. In 2003 a large Finnish study found that sons of women who were depressed during pregnancy had an increased likelihood of being arrested for criminal acts before they turned 30...