Beyond the baby blues anxiety and depression during and after pregnancy
Anxiety and depression can be experienced during pregnancy, as well as post-partum, and the impact can be both debilitating and devastating. Fox Starr shares her personal story of marriage, motherhood, prenatal anxiety and depression, severe postpartum anxiety and depression, recovery process and ho...
| Main Author: | Fox Starr, Rebecca, 1985- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: A happy story. First comes love : a pregnant paws and other crazy tales
- Part II: A hard story. Professional perspective on prenatal distress ; Uncomfortably numb : the beginning of my prenatal distress ; "I didn't know exactly what it was, but I knew to fear it" : my prenatal anxiety and depression ; Violated expectations of magic : Dr. Amy Wenzel's clinical experience with prenatal distress ; "I see the light going out in your eyes" : the beginning of my postpartum depression ; A bicycle built for two (it that bicycle were actually an ER suite) : my severe postpartum depression
- Part III: A hopeful story. Support as a key to recovery ; Together, ever after ; Hope.