• Postpartum Depression Symptoms

Symptoms

Mental Symptoms:

  • Prolonged sadness and frustration
  • Anxiety
  • Feeling as if she is incompetent to take care of newborn
  • Hopelessness
  • Guilt feeling
  • Poor self esteem and self confidence
  • Social withdrawal
  • No desire or pleasure in anything
  • Thoughts of death with or without suicide
  • Thoughts of harming the baby
  • Indecisiveness
  • Weepiness

Physical Symptoms-

  • Sleeplessness
  • No desire to eat
  • Low desire for sex
  • Exhausted and empty feeling
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of energy
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