Antenatal depression may not only alter development of stress - related biological systems
in the fetus, but may also increase risk of obstetrical complications.6 Postnatal depression may also be an early
life stressor given known associations with lower levels of sensitive, responsive care needed for infants» development of health attachment
relationships, emotional regulation skills, interpersonal skills and stress response mechanisms.7 Early
life stressors, such as those that might be associated with maternal depression, can influence brain development, which continues
at a rapid pace
at least for several years after birth.8 Problems
in any of these aspects of development may disrupt the earliest
stages of socio - emotional and cognitive development, predisposing to the
later development of depression or other disorders.
Then he described its effects on Shaw herself: «What we usually see
in this case is the child beginning to act out as a teenager, pregnancy, substance abuse, sometimes suicidality, sometimes that doesn't occur until the twenties, then you really also see alienation from the mother so that by the time the child gets into college and starts speaking to other people and finds out what other people, other students have been through they start questioning themselves, and questioning their
relationship with their mother, and it can cause a terrible crevasse between Mom and Daughter
at a
later stage in life, teenage, college years.