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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a therapist I understand the limits of therapy. CBT can't stop the oxytocin crash. Would you tell a man with a broken arm not to take pain meds? This is just misogyny, the expectation that a women should be able to "think" her way out of a massive physical shift taking place in her brain. [/quote]

As someone who has never had PPD/PPA or clinical depression/anxiety, but is interested (I’m one month postpartum with #2 and planning on having a third; my sister in law also had crippling PPD/PPA and she took a very high dose of Zoloft throughout her pregnancy/postpartum): what do you mean by oxytocin crash? Why do only some women get PPD/PPA if we all have the same crash postpartum? Do we all not have the same crash?[/quote]

We don’t all have the same crash. It’s very individual. I had intense baby blues from the immediate post-partum hormone drop, then felt great for two months, then developed PPD, got better, then had a PPD relapse at 14mo when my baby weaned.

And despite what PP said, PPD is rarely just hormones. Like anything mental health related, it’s likely a combination of hormone imbalance AND environmental factors. For me, there’s no question that isolation, lack of support, and a couple external events led to or exacerbated my PPD. I think the hormones made me vulnerable, but the external factors pushed me over the edge. Of course, everyone is different and for others the hormonal imbalances may play a bigger role.[/quote]

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