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Life after birth
Sheila Kitzinger reveals some truths about what life after birth can be like for some new mums. After the Vietnam War soldiers on both sides who had not suffered any physical injury often became distressed. They had panic attacks and flashbacks to terrible events they had witnessed, but which they were unable to do anything about. The diagnosis…
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD for short) is different from depression. Anti-depressant drugs do not help, and can even make it worse. Many women who are haunted by what has to be done to them in childbirth are treated by GPs with anti-depressant drugs. What they really need is to be able to talk with someone who understands, a person…
News: Trauma of childbirth may lead to post traumatic stress disorder
It is hard to believe that some new mothers will suffer from post traumatic stress, something we tend to associate with soldiers and war. In fact, childbirth causes post traumatic stress disorder in a surprisingly large number of women, according to Cheryl Tatano Beck, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Nursing at the University of Connecticut. Beck has spent…
