Postpartum Anxiety
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Questions about postpartum Anxiety.
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Postpartum anxiety is feelings of worry, anxiousness, and hypervigilance that impact your life, bonding, sleep, and or relationships in a way that causes you distress.
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Postpartum anxiety can happen with or without postpartum depression. Postpartum anxiety involves more worry than sadness. People who experience postpartum anxiety without depression experience a mix of happy times and anxious times.
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About 1 in 5 every gestational parents will experience postpartum anxiety. It is believed that this number is likely much higher, as this is only based on what gets reported.
About 10% of non-gestational parents will experience a postpartum mood disorder, including postpartum anxiety.
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While we don’t know the exact cause of any postpartum mood disorder here are some of the things we do know:
-It is not your fault, and it is not a reflection on your parenting ability
-There are factors that increase the likelihood of developing a postpartum mood disorder: family and or personal history of depression, anxiety, or OCD; Economic disparities, relationships challenges, and birth trauma.
-Postpartum mood disorders are treatable, and parent child bonding can succeed.
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Postpartum anxiety can be treated through medication, talk therapy, and …. or a combination thereof.
There are lifestyle changes that can also help support a return to the person you want to be.
Forth Trimester Therapy provides talk therapy. As well as referrals, when needed.
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