This new initiative is designed to educate consumers and health care providers
about perinatal mood disorders, emphasizing the newly - appreciated fact that they include both depression and anxiety and can occur both during and after pregnancy.
Click below to find out more
about perinatal mood disorders & how to get help.
Essential info
about perinatal mood & anxiety disorders, including risk factors, symptoms & treatments.
Click below to find out more
about perinatal mood disorders & how to get help.
Not exact matches
Below we hope to answer some of the most frequently asked questions
about postpartum depression, and
perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
We are beginning an initiative, requested by our dear friend and President's Advisory Committee member George Parnham, JD, to train law enforcement and lawyers in
perinatal mood disorders as well as to instruct expert witnesses
about testifying when needed.
If you've come to this page, you may be worried that you or someone you care
about is suffering from a
perinatal mood or anxiety disorder such as postpartum depression.
In order to ensure that the media does not stigmatize women with
perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, it is important when reporting on these illnesses to be careful
about how they are characterized.
About 13 % of women experience
perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD), and up to 50 % their partners can also experience symptoms of the same issues.
Postpartum Support International www.postpartum.net Resources include information
about the various
perinatal mood disorders, a warmline, and access to mental health providers and support groups.
Ann became interested in
perinatal mood disorder after suffering severe anxiety and depression after her 2nd and 3rd children before much was known
about good treatment.
Those with a history of depression should think carefully
about taking the birth control pill, especially in the postpartum period when reoccurrence of depressive symptoms in the form of a
perinatal mood disorder are more likely.