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