One in seven new mothers experience postpartum depression. It’s a serious condition that can be fatal. Now a new pill – and other medical options -- are bringing hope.
DEBORAH BECKER: Many people expect that having a child will be one of the happiest moments of their lives. But for hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. every year, a baby’s birth results in post-partum depression. Lisette Lopez-Rose is now happily raising her almost three-year-old daughter Sybil. But her first months of motherhood were dark.
BECKER: As the weeks ticked by, while she was still waiting to see a therapist, Lisette went online and found a support group –and that she says made a big difference. BECKER: That was Lisette Lopez-Rose, mother of an almost-three-year-old daughter. She spoke to us from Richmond, California. First of all, she had a tremendous stressor being pregnant and giving birth during the start of the pandemic. That was obviously a difficult time for everyone, particularly for people who are becoming parents and going through labor and delivery at that time. The sense of isolation.
But I think we'll all be better served if we reduce stigma and view these early signs as warning signs and getting people into treatment sooner. So again it's on a continuum.MONK: Yes. Also, people's experiences of their own childhoods gets very activated in this time. If there's trauma in the background, that can be a risk factor. Prior depressions can be risk factors. Thinking about the couple relationship and where support is coming from, as you say, there's a lot going on and how much those are challenging issues, the sleep is an issue for everybody, but if you're really susceptible to lack of sleep, that can really, if you will, put people over the edge.
So they should be more aware that some of these things that they're going through during this very overwhelming time might be warning signs. So are there other things that people should be considering? Before you have a kid, you hear many people do have postpartum, but it really takes on a new meaning when it shows up in your own life. So, I'm so happy and grateful for this new drug. It just shows that culturally and in society we're giving thought and care to mothers during really the most vulnerable part, I feel, like, of our lives.
BECKER: So if you identify it early, is it easier, do we know enough to say it's easier to treat? Does it treat it differently? Are we talking about something slightly different than what might happen post-delivery?But the other piece of it is that we think about the emotional symptoms as having an impact on both the pregnancy health, as well as the family system, and that ends up also being unintended consequence of delay in care.
So a lot of excitement for all these reasons. And prior to this, presuming that this will soon be available, more widely available once it goes through this FDA approval process, there was really one treatment and I was astounded to learn that, and I think it was approved in 2019. We know their risk profile, so we have a lot of tools. Really, in my view, the biggest challenge is helping people to access mental health care and helping with the stigma that's part of our culture still around mental health care.
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