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Pregnancy Blues: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Depression During Pregnancy

Pregnancy Blues: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Depression During Pregnancy

Kulkarni Misri, Shaila

Paperback

Women's HealthMental Health

ISBN10: 0385338678
ISBN13: 9780385338677
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Sep 26 2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
It should be a time of joyous anticipation-the happiest time in a woman's life. But for many women, the joys of pregnancy are clouded by feelings of fear, sadness, and confusion. And unlike postpartum depression, which is widely portrayed in the media and embraced by the medical community, depression during pregnancy has been rarely discussed and often misunderstood-until now. In this groundbreaking book-the first to focus exclusively on depression in pregnancy-Dr. Shaila Kulkarni Misri, a leading reproductive psychiatrist, draws on her twenty-five years of clinical practice and research to offer hope, help, and healing-as well as a provocative, myth-shattering examination of a subject that has too long been shrouded in darkness.

The numbers are surprising: up to 70 percent of pregnant women experience some degree of depressive symptoms, and of those, 12 percent meet the diagnostic criteria for major depression. Although it is at least as common as postpartum depression, which occurs after a child's birth, pregnancy-related depression is often cloaked in silence, shame, and denial. Pregnancy Blues lifts the veil on this heartbreaking-and very treatable-

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