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O depresji w ciąży i po porodzie — Iwona Koszewska

Autorka opisuje przyczyny depresji, objawy, metody leczenia i terapii. Poradnik jest pomyślany jako przewodnik pomagający zrozumieć przyczyny stanów depresyjnych i przedstawiający sposoby pomocy i wspierania kobiety w depresji, bo według autorki kluczem do pokonania depresji poporodowej jest jej zrozumienie. Autorka jest pracownikiem Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii w Warszawie. Zajmuje się leczeniem depresji i zapobieganiem chorobom afektywnym.

Depresja poporodowa — Anna Morawska

Płaczesz. Brakuje ci siły, by zająć się dzieckiem. Boisz się, że nie dasz rady go wychować, że nie potrafisz być dobrą matką. Objawów depresji poporodowej jest wiele. Dziecko odmienia życie każdej kobiety, ale nie zawsze może ona w pełni cieszyć się macierzyństwem. Z depresją poporodową walczy co dziesiąta matka. Po raz pierwszy kobiety, które jej doświadczyły, opowiedziały o swoich zmaganiach po urodzeniu dziecka. Anna Morawska przełamuje tabu i rozmawia o jednej z najczęściej przemilczanych depresji – depresji poporodowej. Leczenie i psychoterapia to jedyna droga, by wygrać z tą chorobą - śmiertelnie niebezpieczną dla matki i dziecka.

Angielskojęzyczne

Postpartum Depression for Dummies — Shoshana S. Bennett

It's a great blessing when a new mom with postpartum depression (PPD) is fortunate enough to be diagnosed early by a knowledgeable medical practitioner or therapist. But without guidance, it isn't always clear where the boundary between normal baby blues and PPD lies. As with any other illness, the quicker that PPD is identified and treated, the faster the woman will recover. Postpartum Depression For Dummies can help you begin the process of determining what's going on with you and give you a better idea of where you fall so that you can get yourself into proper treatment right away. The book covers all aspects of PPD, from its history and its origins to its effects on women and their families to the wide variety of treatments available--including conventional Western medicine, psychological therapy, alternative medical treatments, and self-care measures.

The Postpartum Husband — Karen Kleiman

This hands-on guide includes straightforward, supportive information and specific recommendations to help partners deal with the impact of depression after the birth of a baby.

Adventures with Postpartum Depression — Courtney Novak

After the birth of her first child, Courtney Novak was blindsided by postpartum depression. Her maternal mental illness started with a pervasive sense of guilt and quickly morphed into anxiety, insomnia and neurotic behaviors like checking to make sure her baby was still breathing dozens of times each night. When she started having dark intrusive thoughts of throwing her daughter, she finally asked for help.

Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts — Karen Kleiman

Over 90 percent of new mothers will have scary, intrusive thoughts about their baby and themselves. What if I drop him? What if I snap and hurt my baby? Mothering is so hard—I don't know if I really want to do this anymore. Gosh, I'm so terrible for thinking that! Yet for too many mothers, those thoughts remain secret, hidden away in a place of shame that can quickly grow into anxiety, postpartum depression, and even self-harm. But here's the good news: you CAN feel better!

Rattled: Overcoming Postpartum Psychosis — Jen Wight

Parenthood brings sleepless nights, tears and tantrums, nappy changes from hell, and the firm belief that you’re Cameron Diaz… wait, what?! New mum, Jen Wight, definitely wasn’t expecting that. But after her son was born, her worldview shifted in strange and unexpected ways. Within weeks, Jen found herself living a very different life – working out the deeper connections underpinning existence, and discussing strategy with Barack Obama. The problem is, no one else could see what she saw. Not even her next-door neighbour, Renée Zellweger!

Why Breastfeeding Grief and Trauma Matter — Amy Brown

A startlingly large number of women who want to breastfeed have to stop before they are ready, leaving them feeling a range of negative emotions, including grief, anger, guilt, shame and frustration, and often blaming themselves. But in a society that places little value on breastfeeding and mothers' feelings, their painful stories are often swept under the carpet to the detriment of women's mental health and experience of new motherhood.