After two to three weeks, clinicians usually consider the mother's experience as postpartum depression.
Defense attorneys point to Yates' troubling history with postpartum depression, suicide attempts and psychotic behavior.
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"Half of all men whose partner has postpartum depression are depressed themselves, " Courtenay said.
He suggested there are several ways for new fathers to try to prevent postpartum depression.
Loo and Hansen both feel that they have become stronger people because they went through postpartum depression.
How do these other problems differ from postpartum depression, and what should you look out for?
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During an interview with host Matt Lauer, Cruise criticized the actress Brooke Shields for having taken antidepressant drugs to combat postpartum depression.
Most people are aware of postpartum depression as a common and no-longer-shameful problem faced by mothers, and occasionally fathers, in the early post-baby months.
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One recent study found that almost 13% of the women sampled experienced general postpartum anxiety, as opposed to postpartum depression, of which 17% suffered.
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Male postpartum depression is different from the "daddy blues, " he said.
In retrospect, Loo believes she experienced postpartum depression with each of her three children, but the most intense feelings of losing control came with her youngest.
Postpartum depression is more intense and intrusive: Women may lose interest in life, withdraw from family and friends, or think about harming themselves or their children.
Cognitive behavioral therapy -- which focuses on changing thought patterns -- and antidepressant or anti-anxiety medications are all treatment options for women with postpartum depression, Kleiman said.
And we're not necessarily talking about postpartum depression here.
Some of the symptoms of postpartum depression are the same as those for generalized depression, such as sadness, a sense of worthlessness and a loss of interest in sex or hobbies.
If you develop a postpartum depression, treat it quickly, because we know that when new moms get depressed, their babies suffer now and are much more likely to develop mental illness as they age.
Yates had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and her lawyers argued that severe psychosis brought on by postpartum depression following the birth of her youngest child, Mary, led her to commit the killings.
"There's a certain postpartum depression that settles in after you finish a film, " says "Martha" director and Borderline principal Sean Durkin, who produced the thriller "Simon Killer" for colleague Antonio Campos (who had previously produced "Martha").
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Lori Hansen, 43, of Garner, Iowa, suspected early on that her anxiety and insomnia may have been part of postpartum depression, and went to see her obstetrician-gynecologist four weeks after giving birth to her first son, Kyle.
New mothers may also be reluctant in bed because of physical discomfort or because they have some element of postpartum depression, said Dr. Rini Ratan, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center.
Yates had a history of postpartum psychosis, major depression and two suicide attempts before she drowned her children and laid their bodies on her bed, covering them with a sheet.
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