More specifically,
compared with women with no early neonatal
signs of breastfeeding difficulty, we found that women who had negative feelings about breastfeeding and reported severe pain while nursing soon after birth were more likely to experience postpartum
depression at 2 months.
Treatment would look very different for a person whose psychotic experiences were linked to
depression or anxiety disorders or were the one - time result
of acute stress,
compared with a person who is showing the first
signs of schizophrenia.
Three studies that explored symptoms
of emotional disorders found that these were higher in children
of parents with BPD
compared with control groups: Barnow et al
compared children aged 11 — 18 years
of mothers with BPD with children
of mothers with
depression, and mothers with other personality disorders, and found the children
of mothers with BPD to have
signs of higher levels
of emotional disorder and
of suicidal ideation.21 Indeed, 9 %
of children whose mothers had BPD had already attempted suicide,
compared with 2 %
of children
of healthy mothers.