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Postpartum mood disorder and depression are serious diseases not to be treated lightly. Even if Tom Cruise said that exercise and vitamins cure postpartum (Brooke Shields doesn't have any pride to go to his wedding and now be friends with him!), postpartum often needs to be treated with antidepressants.

There are several types of postpartum, from the mild one that is normal to the more extreme ones who can lead a woman to killing herself and her kids while in a psychosis trance. We all saw the trial of Andrea Yates who killed her five kids. She had severe postpartum depression at each of her five kids and even had to be treated with Haldol because the antidepressants did not work on her. I understand her disease but I don't understand how her and her husband continued with the pregnancies even though she developed psychosis related to her postpartum depression. They are Christians and don't believe in contraception but I don't think that a loving God intended for her to go on making babies and end up homicidal.

The less severe mood disorder is like PMS..you cry and feel that you won't be able to care for the child and you talk with friends or your mother and they are able to pick you up and make you see the light of day. Most women suffer from this kind of disorder. Only a handful of women end up having visions of throwing their baby on the wall. I applauded Brooke Shields when she came out and said that she had such visions and was afraid to stay alone with he baby. Her book was simply superb. She should have held her own and not groveled at Tom Cruise's feet because she was afraid for her career if she held a fight with him.

Do not feel that you are not normal if you have feelings of doubt after having your child. Not every woman is a super woman and do everything perfectly. Be gentle with yourself!

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