I made it through the day with the intention of being strong. I sought to focus on the positive and recall the endless list of things to be thankful for on this Mother’s Day. For awhile, I found solace in the thought that my mother, grandmothers, aunts, and loved ones were around to help me celebrate the occasion. Truthfully, I still missed her. She was the angel that bestowed upon me the title mother. She was the blessing that entered my life and forever changed me.

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When I was pregnant with twins more than five years ago, I began compiling a list of my worst fears. The list included 19 items, from pesticides to roaches to blood clots to a parasitic infection that terrified me so much that I referred to it as “the disease whose name I refuse to say.” Then there were the more abstract fears: “Being too anxious to function during pregnancy.” “God punishing me.” “Angry God in general.”

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qz.com

Mistakes were made in the care of a woman who committed suicide after running away from Waikato Hospital's mental health centre, a clinician says. Claire Watson left the psychiatric unit of the Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre in November 2011. The doctor caring for the 30-year-old had downgraded her risk and she was being checked on at 10-minute intervals rather than being continuously observed.

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radionz.co.nz

More research is needed to improve the identification and treatment of women with perinatal mental health issues, according to a new editorial co-authored by Professor Susan Ayers, the lead of the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research at City University London. Along with co-author Judy Shakespeare, from the Royal College of General Practitioners.

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medicalxpress.com

Sanchita Islam is attempting to push serious mental health problems associated with motherhood into the spotlight. The artist and writer’s latest book, Schizophrenics Can Be Good Mothers Too, which explores her own experience of psychosis, and especially postpartum psychosis – a much rarer condition than postnatal depression, which can produce hallucinations, delusion and paranoia – is likely to resonate widely.

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theguardian.com

At the beginning of spring in 2013, Mary Guest, a lively, accomplished 37-year-old woman, fell in love, became pregnant and married after a short courtship. At the time, Mary taught children with behavioral problems in Portland, Ore. Her supervisor said that he had rarely seen a teacher with Mary’s gift for intuiting students’ needs. 

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nytimes.com

Maternal mental health concerns remain the no. 1 medical complication of pregnancy affecting between 15-20% of women. A recent research study indicates that for women with the most severe symptoms, maternal depression and anxiety often begin during pregnancy not just after giving birth. Yet despite this staggering statistic, 70 to 80 percent of these women never receive treatment, because they are never properly identified and diagnosed.

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huffingtonpost.com 

Tübingen neuroscientists have made an important advance in studying the human brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This imaging technique is used in research endeavours to investigate the interactions between different brain regions – but indirectly: fMRI does not measure neuronal processes, but marks active brain areas on the basis of their blood flow. Dr. Markus Siegel and his team (Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience.

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medicalxpress.com

A new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, University of Oslo, and the Hospital for Sick Children has found that pregnant women who take anti-depressants might be making their toddler experience anxiety. This means that there needs to be careful and thoughtful consideration before deciding to take anti-depressant medications if you are pregnant, because it could be more harmful to the fetus than previously thought.

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gazettereview.com

I am at my desk with 10 minutes until a transition meeting leading up to my maternity leave. The phone rings. "The results of your blood test came back. Why don't you come in tonight for an induction?" I remember little of the meeting that followed, and guarantee that nothing I imparted resembled anything close to "wisdom."

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redbookmag.com

District Attorney Dan Conley made headlines earlier this week with his fierce defense of mandatory minimum sentences. During a summit of luminaries in the criminal justice field, he said that giving judges more discretion in sentencing would be “a return to a failed policy of 30 years ago.” What Conley didn’t address was the supposed topic of his panel: the disproportionately high numbers of people incarcerated in Massachusetts with mental illness and substance abuse, especially among women.

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bostonglobe.com

As the lead investigator of a Massachusetts study on postpartum mental health among diverse women, I and my research team have the chance to speak to women during their pregnancy and a couple of times after they give birth, including as early as three months postpartum. Although all these women reside in Massachusetts, their experiences with trying to get support and mental-health services vary widely. Some women describe supportive, knowledgeable, and sympathetic providers, while others have come face to face with major barriers as they try to get support for themselves and their families. Some women.

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huffingtonpost.com

The symptoms of post-natal depression may develop while a women is still pregnant, scientists now believe. One in 10 women experience the intense depression after giving birth. Most research into severe cases of the 'baby blues' has found the symptoms begin shortly after having a baby, with most not detected until six months after a baby is born. But a new study has found in extreme cases, the condition develops while a woman is still pregnant.

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dailymail.co.uk

The artist Sarah Walker once told me that becoming a mother is like discovering the existence of a strange new room in the house where you already live. I always liked Walker's description because it's more precise than the shorthand most people use for life with a newborn: Everything changes. Because a lot of things do change, of course, but for new mothers, some of the starkest differences are also the most intimate ones—the emotional changes. Which, it turns out, are also largely neurological.

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theatlantic.com

Maternal depression during an offspring's childhood is significantly associated with risky health behaviors during adolescence, new research suggests. A study of almost 3000 mother-adolescent pairs showed significantly more "delinquent behaviors," including smoking, violence, and alcohol and illicit drug use, in offspring of women who suffered from depression when their children were 6 to 10 years of ages during a child's adolescence and subsequent delinquent behaviors. 

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medscape.com

They come a fortnight after the bodies of Charlotte Bevan, 30, and her four-day-old daughter Zaani were found in the Avon Gorge after they went missing from a maternity hospital in Bristol. NICE hopes its advice will help NHS staff identify mental health problems. A fifth of women have depression or anxiety in the year after giving birth. Ms Bevan is believed to have suffered from schizophrenia and depression and had been sleep-deprived after giving birth.

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bbc.com

On Tuesday I was invited to attend the Parliamentary launch of a new report which has found that that our failure to fully address perinatal mental health problems carries a total economic and social long-term cost to society of over £8 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK. Of that, £1.7 billion is borne directly by the public sector. It would cost a mere £337 million to raise perinatal mental health care standards to recommended levels. In the L&D industry, achieving a modest return on investment from our change programmes is frequently described as the ‘holy grail’.  

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Urgent action is needed to improve care for mothers-to-be with pre-existing medical and mental health problems, experts said, as a new study showed that the death rate among such women has remained constant despite an overall fall in maternal deaths. There were 321 maternal deaths – women who died during their pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth – between 2010 and 2012, equivalent to 10.1 per 100,000 women giving birth, compared with 11.4 per 100,000 in 2006 to 2008, a study led by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University found.

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theguardian.com

Women and girls with intellectual disabilities or mental illness in India are subject to forced institutionalization in sometimes overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, verbal and physical abuse, and medication without consent, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch on Wednesday. The group interviewed 52 women and girls who had been institutionalized because of mental disabilities in the past two years, as well as their families, staff members at the facilities where the patients were treated, and doctors in four Indian states. 

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Bostonglobe.com

One in seven new mums develop postnatal depression – a condition that can easily be missed or ignored. There are medications that can help but there are many things that you can do to help yourself manage your condition and feel better able to cope day to day. Your GP has diagnosed you with postnatal depression (PND) and may have recommended talking therapies or medication. But there are other things you can do to help yourself.

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motherandbabyco.uk September 10, 2013 

Most Australians say stress is affecting their mental health and there is a widening wellbeing gap between the sexes, a new mental health report says. The Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) survey of stress and wellbeing also found 2014 was a tough year for women, with many reporting significantly higher levels of stress in their day-to-day lives.  More than 70% Australians reported their current stress levels had an impact on their physical health.

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theguardian.com

Psychotherapy and mindfulness techniques could help many women who experience depression during menopause, according to a review of existing research. Too few studies have looked at whether cognitive therapies are good alternatives for women who can’t or don’t want to use pharmaceutical treatments, the authors conclude, but the handful that did mostly showed positive results. Menopause is a natural transition, but is often accompanied by symptoms like hot flashes, poor sleep and, for nearly half of menopausal women, depression.

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Susan Barden stood over her sleeping newborn son and cautiously started to edge her way out of his nursery towards the door. Suddenly, baby Etienne started jerking alarmingly, his tiny arms flailing about in distress, before his body was consumed by heavy, distressed sobs. The guilt stabbed her like a knife. Instantly, Susan picked up her baby and began soothing and kissing him. It was going to be a long night. Susan had been warned that Etienne might suffer sleep problems and irritability in these early weeks. 

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Joanna Friend, from Woodbury, near Exeter, Devon, first experienced depression and anxiety five days after the birth of her first son: “I started feeling an intense anxiety, and I went downhill very fast – I was lying on the floor crying and asking for people to help me. It got so bad a friend said I needed to call the mental health crisis team.” With no specialist care available Friend, now 36, was given tranquillisers and antidepressants, which required her to stop breastfeeding.

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theguardian.com

Eating disorders have long been considered a disease that affects young women and adolescents, but experts say women in midlife are increasingly vulnerable to the tangled and potentially fatal scourge. "Women with midlife eating disorders have been invisible sufferers, but it's a problem we're seeing more than ever," says Adrienne Ressler, a specialist at The Renfrew Center, a residential facility with 16 national locations designed to treat anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and related mental health problems.

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chicagotribune.com

 “Binge drinking ONCE during pregnancy can damage your child's mental health and school results,” says the Mail Online.  The headline follows an analysis of results from a study including thousands of women and their children. In analyses of up to 7,000 children, researchers found that children of women who engaged in binge drinking at least once in pregnancy, but did not drink daily, had slightly higher levels of hyperactivity and inattention problems. These children also scored on average about one point lower in exams.

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nhs.uk

Giving birth should be the start of a wonderful journey but for first time mum Eve Canavan it turned into a nightmare. Eve, from London, was struck down with postpartum psychosis - a severe mental illness which made her hallucinate about death and shun her newborn son. Here she recalls the horror and explains how she got the help she needed to come through it. Getting pregnant was so exciting. John and I were in a loving relationship, and I couldn’t wait to be a mum.

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mirror.co.uk

From your health visitor to dedicated phone lines, find out the resources available to help you start coping with postnatal depression. Postnatal depression is more common than often thought, affecting around one in 10 new mums. The symptoms vary and, in the sleep-deprived, hectic world of having a newborn, PND can be easy to miss. But it’s nothing to be ashamed of and there is support out there, so lean on the resources available to you.

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motherandbaby.co.uk

Eight years ago when I started taking antidepressants, having a baby was the furthest thing from my mind. I was 25, and desperately unhappy for reasons I had trouble explaining. It wasn’t the first time I had felt this way—I’d experienced bouts of intense anxiety and depression since I was 19. It would always start with a nagging unwanted thought that would morph into a cyclical internal monologue that grew into a tornado of negativity inside me. I would wake up crying. Sometimes I couldn’t work.

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theatlantic.com

The deaths one year ago of Lisa Gibson and her two young children have prompted a growing number of Winnipeg parents to seek help and resources on postpartum depression. The tragedy was felt by people across Canada and prompted a conversation about postpartum mental health that continues today. Those who work in the perinatal and mental health fields say the case has changed the stigma around postpartum depression and has prompted more people to ask for help. "It really demonstrated that mental health challenges can happen to anyone.

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Mothers-to-be who use pain relief during childbirth may have a lower risk of depression after their babies are born, a leading psychiatrist has said. The NHS says that around one in 10 women suffer from post-natal depression. Now new research from China has found that those who have an epidural for pain relief during labour during a normal birth have a lower rate of depression than those who go without.

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telegraph.co.uk

Women with anxiety disorders may be more likely to have babies who cry excessively, suggests a new German study. Researchers already know that the children of women with anxiety disorders are more prone to develop anxiety themselves, according to Johanna Petzoldt. She led the current study at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Dresden University of Technology. “We found a relationship between maternal anxiety disorders prior to, during and after pregnancy, thus, mothers with prior anxiety disorders might represent a specific risk group for having an infant that will cry excessively,” Petzoldt told Reuters Health in an email.

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Women with anxiety disorders may be more likely to have babies who cry excessively, suggests a new German study. Researchers already know that the children of women with anxiety disorders are more prone to develop anxiety themselves, according to Johanna Petzoldt. She led the current study at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Dresden University of Technology. “We found a relationship between maternal anxiety disorders prior to, during and after pregnancy, thus, mothers with prior anxiety disorders might represent a specific risk group for having an infant that will cry excessively,” Petzoldt told Reuters Health in an email.

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reuters.com

If there's one thing that people with experience of depression fear most in life, it's depression coming back. The thought of being dragged again into a moribund swamp of emptiness, ennui and self-hatred is terrifying. Depression often returns, so it’s handy to learn how to fend off the black dog before you find yourself staring at the back of its open throat and being knocked to the ground. It can take a hell of a long time to get up.To this end, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (Nice) has issued new guidelines to GPs treating women with depression. 

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theguardian.com

Kansas adults with mental illness are more than twice as likely to smoke, according to a new study commissioned by the Kansas Health Foundation, a private Wichita-based philanthropy. The study, conducted by nonprofit research institute RTI International, found that the number of adults with mental illness who smoke, about 38 percent, is more than twice that among adults without mental illness who smoke, about 17 percent. 

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Kansas.com

First aid training was held in four Kansas City metro counties on Thursday, but you couldn’t find any bandages or tourniquets at this training. It was Mental Health First Aid and more than 250 people took part. They learned the symptoms of mental illness and how to respond. “If there’s anything I can do to be more aware, to be smarter, to be kinder, to say something more constructive, I certainly want to do that,” said Judy Wright, a participant.

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fox4kc.com

The NHS offers “dangerously inadequate” care to women who suffer mental health problems during or after pregnancy, prompting claims it is neglecting mothers at risk of suicide. The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA), which has collated new figures, is warning that women who develop a perinatal mental illness are missing out on potentially lifesaving care. In response, the Welsh Government says health boards are expected to have a maternal mental health plan in place to support women who are identified as being at risk.

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Walesonline.co.uk

When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored or replaced with a more racially charged narrative. The surface response to her actions seems to be one of blanket shock: "Why would she do such a horrible thing?" But the subtext to that question is this: "Why do they do such horrible things?"

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theguardian.com

After Katherine Stone's first child, a son, was born 12 years ago, she immediately felt "super anxious." Her son had jaundice, a relatively common yellow discoloration of a newborn's skin and eyes. "I thought he was going to die," said Stone, an Atlanta mom of two. When hospital staff wanted to discharge her while her son remained behind for more treatment, she refused to depart, so she had to pay full price for a hospital room to stay.

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CNN.com

Northern Ireland is seriously lacking in the provision of mental health services for new mothers, according to research published on Tuesday. More than one in 10 women develops a mental illness during pregnancy or within a year after giving birth. Belfast is the only part of Northern Ireland with provision to help them. The Maternal Mental Health Alliance - a group of professionals and charity organisations - has said that is an embarrassment to the NHS.

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BBC.com

The NHS has been criticised for failing women who suffer from postnatal depression by denying many of them potentially life-saving services to help them cope. Freedom of Information Act responses from 193 NHS trusts across England reveal that only 50 provide a specialist perinatal mental health service to women around the time they give birth and five others offer some sort of provision. More than half of the trusts disclosed that they do not offer any formal help, even though one in 10 mothers experiences postnatal depression.

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theguardian.com

Half a million mothers are served by home visiting programs in the US alone. Thousands of them – in some studies, nearly two-thirds – have depression. They rarely get treatment. A new study suggests that home visiting could bring treatment to them with a cognitive behavioral therapy approach. A recent study of depressed mothers has found that In-Home Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (IH-CBT), when delivered alongside standard home visiting, reduced mothers’ psychological distress while improving their perception of social support.

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Preventionaction.org

Women with chronic physical illnesses are 10% more likely to seek support for mental health issues than men with similar illnesses, according to a new study. The study from St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science also found that women tend to seek out mental health services months earlier than men. Researchers looked at people diagnosed with at least one of four illnesses.

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Time.com

 Christina “Tina” Duepner escaped her postpartum psychosis, through postpartum depression, and now helps others navigate their own rough times. She’s active in Postpartum Progress, a national organization that helps mothers who have overcome problems connect with mothers who are struggling, “so they know they’re not alone.” Duepner’s struggle began in August 2010 about a week after having her son, Landon. She began to feel strange and act erratically.

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Stltoday.com

Last week, we posted a story on schizophrenia, which aimed to provide an idea of what it's like to live with the condition. The reader response was overwhelmingly positive. Although, some of you (correctly) pointed out that it's impossible to truly understand exactly what a chronic mental health problem feels like — unless you've gone through it yourself. With that in mind, an ongoing project by photographer John William Keedy illuminates another of the many, many facets of mental illness.

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Refinery29.com

In the meantime, physicians are stretching their very limited resources. The April 2, Fort Hood shooting, the Sandy Hook massacre, and the Aurora movie theater incident are just three out of many tragic days in the United States with one common denominator. "How bad is the mental healthcare crisis in America? I'd definitely give it a 9.5," says Dr Chris Colvin, Emergency Department Medical Director at Seton Medical Center right outside of Fort Hood. 

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Kcentv.com

The consequences of postpartum depression can be tragic. Even beyond the cases that we read about in the news, postpartum depression harms women, their children and families. Given how difficult it can be to obtain quality mental health services in a timely manner, efforts to provide better education to women and their health care providers, and to make good treatment more accessible, are crucial.

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NYtimes.com

 Young and middle-aged women who are depressed are twice as likely to have a heart attack or die prematurely, warn researchers.  They believe depression puts women at special risk of suffering heart problems, and doctors should be aware of the link. U.S. researchers say underlying depression could explain poor survival rates among women aged 55 and younger compared with men. Dr Amit Shah, study author and assistant professor of Epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, said:

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thedailymail.co.uk

A Weymouth mother has spoken of her struggle with post-natal depression as she pledged her support for an awareness month for the illness. Felicity Ayles, 24, has joined forces with Rummage Theatre to campaign for the awareness-raising month after she suffered from the condition for eight months. The theatre company, based in Weymouth and managed by Lauren Whitehead.

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dorsetecho.co.uk

Ohio’s female prisoners were nearly three times as likely to require mental health treatment in 2013 than their male counterparts, according to analysis of a Correctional Institution Inspection Committee report. At the end of 2013, 45.6 percent of female prisoners were on the mental health caseload compared to 17.2 percent of male prisoners, according to analysis of the report, which was released last week. 

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Port Clinton News Herald.com

When it comes to health care, men really could be from Mars and women from Venus. Women are more likely to seek medical care and use health care regularly than men are. They have unique and very different needs regarding their anatomical and hormonal makeup. Women also have unique psychological issues; they experience twice the rate of depression as men, regardless of race or ethnic background.

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Pharmacists.com

Emily Dryer, a former obstetrics nurse, has seen postpartum depression in real life. In the novel “The Memory Child” by Steena Holmes, Dryer said she saw it accurately portrayed in fiction. “As an avid reader, I recommend this novel because it is a page-turner,” said the Hingham resident, who is the mother of two grown children.

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Boston Globe.com

Maternal depression is more common at four years following childbirth than at any other time in the first 12 months after childbirth, and there needs to be a greater focus on maternal mental health, suggests a new study published today (21 May) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 

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Medical Xpress

Mothers are more likely to suffer depression when their child is four years old than when they are babies, according to a study that has led to calls for a change in the way women are cared for. Four in ten of those suffering depression when their child was older had not previously had any problems, the study found. Researchers have now urged doctors to be aware that postnatal depression can first occur much later than thought.

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Telegraph.co.uk

In late 2005, when Jennifer Marshall was 26, she had two manic episodes back-to-back and had to be hospitalized, resulting in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. “It came out of nowhere for me,” she said. At the time, she was under a tremendous amount of stress at work and “kind of cracked. The illness emerged.

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Washington post.com

Eleven years on, I still remember the evening I decided to kill my baby daughter. It's not something you're supposed to feel as a new parent with a warm, tiny bundle in your arms. But this is how postnatal depression can twist your logic. At the time it made perfect sense. Catherine was screaming, in pain. She had colic, there was nothing I could do about it. 

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The Guardian.com

One in every five women in Saskatchewan will experience depression during or after their pregnancy. In light of this statistic, May 7 was designated Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day. One local mother was brave enough to speak to Global News about her experience in the hopes she can help even just one mom come forward who’s suffering.

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Globalnews.ca

Rosemarie Shaheen Healy endured plenty of life changes in her 40s and early 50s. She moved twice and went through a divorce. Her sons grew up and left home, and she had a hip replacement. On top of all that, Healy, of San Jose, was juggling a private therapy practice and a full-time job as academic dean of an all-girls private high school.

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Mercury News.com

Mary Ross-Davie, midwife and educational projects manager at NHS Education Scotland, said it was to help midwives feel well-prepared to give emotional support. ‘The e-learning resource is to give midwives information about mental health in the perinatal period. If you don’t feel confident to speak to women then it makes these conversations more difficult,’ she said. 

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Rcm.org.uk

A new study from North Carolina State University suggests women who suffer abuse during pregnancy are more likely to suffer post-partum mental health problems. The study was one part of a more comprehensive program looking at health and wellness. The 100 women selected were of a demographic and social status not typically associated with high levels of abuse, which makes some of the finding all the more surprising.

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Wunc.org

Women enrolled in a small study reported a reduction in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a series of yoga classes. However, women in a comparison group that didn't take the classes also reported a similar decline in symptoms, researchers found.

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Reuters.com

What makes a beautiful, successful and extremely rich woman take her own life? In lieu of any sort of evidence, the suspected suicide of designer L'Wren Scott is as baffling as it is heartbreaking for anyone who believes that depression is the sole preserve of the poor and ugly. Unless, of course, you believe that a childless, unmarried woman has every reason in the world to be depressed.

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The Guardian.com

This year's International Women's Day theme, "Equality for women is progress for all," spilled over into an impassioned conversation or all-out fight about male roles in feminism and women's health. As an organization dedicated to HIV/AIDS work with South Asian communities in Toronto our perspectives about how men and boys engage with women's health have been primarily shaped by experiences on the frontlines. 

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Huffington Post.com -March 8, 2014 

Major Pip Delamere-Wright is one of the British Army's elite commandos and was the first female soldier to win the prestigious green beret. Her job requires immense physical and mental stamina, which she used in both Kosovo and Iraq. However, when her baby son was born, she struggled with sleep deprivation and postnatal depression.

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There is growing research interest in the subject of incarcerated women—especially factors associated with recidivism—and a wider recognition of the prevalence of trauma history. Almost 1 in 3 incarcerated women meets criteria for past-year serious mental illness, and almost half of this group have severe functional impairment.

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Psych News - March 6, 2014

The risk of a new mother suffering from post-natal depression could be predicted weeks before the birth of her child simply be monitoring her Twitter feed, computer scientists have found.  Microsoft labs has discovered that it is possible to spot which pregnant women will struggle with motherhood based on the language they use before the birth. 

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Telegraph.co.uk

Being alone with your unwanted thoughts can be one of the loneliest places on the planet. For people suffering from mental health, a constant inner monologue of anxiety, depression, fear or panic can lead to exhaustion, defeat and helplessness. Sufferers should be encouraged to seek support from professionals, friends or family, but are studies and statistics on mental health having the opposite effect?

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Kettle Mag.co.uk

Many women in America’s rural communities don’t receive sufficient mental health care. Social stigma and limited access are often reasons why, interviews show. For a new study published in Mental Health in Family Medicine, researchers interviewed 19 primary care physicians who provide care to rural women in central Pennsylvania. 

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Futurity.org

Women, who are suffering from a serious mental illness, are nearly four times more likely to have been a victim of intimate partner violence than those without a disability, according to a Women's College Hospital study. This is the first Canadian study to analyze the occurrence of intimate partner violence among women with limited movements, disability or due to mental health-related problems.

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Univesity Herald.com

Higher-income "single ladies" often push back against "patriarchy." But the statistics don't lie: Low-income, unmarried women face significant economic challenges when they stay single. Bush administration press secretary Ari Fleischer wrote that "'marriage inequality' should be at the center of any discussion of why some Americans prosper and others don't.

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The Atlantic.com

There has been an 80 per cent rise in sexual harassment cases against women on Mumbai locals this year, statistics released by the Mumbai Government Railway Police reveal. There were 76 cases of crimes against women, including rape, molestation and kidnapping, registered between January 1 and November 30 this year compared to 42 cases in the same period last year.

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Dnaindia.com

One in seven women has depression in the year after they give birth according to a study released on March 13th in the online edition of JAMA Psychiatry. The findings come from the largest screening of postpartum women ever conducted and the only one in which women who showed signs of depression were given a full psychiatric evaluation.

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Seleni.org

The more leave time from work that a woman takes after giving birth -- up to six months -- the better protected she will be from experiencing post-partum depression, according to a study led by Dr. Rada K. Dagher, assistant professor of health services administration at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

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Science Daily

The wife of an army major who was killed by a speeding train was suffering from 'one of the worst cases of post-natal depression' a coroner had ever seen, he told an inquest into her death. New mother Emma Cady would had battled the condition for six months before she drove to a railway line where she was hit by a train. 

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Daily Mail UK

Marian Dowe, a librarian at Howard University, moved to the Washington area earlier this year in search of a job. “I was talking with a friend who lives in this area, and she told me that this area was not impacted by the recession,” Dowe said. “I looked it up and saw it to be true.” Within months, Dowe found full-time work. 

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