Zhengzhou Traditional Chinese Medical Hall: How is postpartum depression formed? Postpartum depression is the result of an interaction of three factors, physiological, psychological and social environment. Physiological factors such as genetics, hormone imbalances, drug side effects, lack of sleep, and fatigue. Social and environmental factors, such as marital indifference or conflict, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law contradictions, poor living conditions, poor economic conditions and so on. And psychological factors, such as personality traits, include distorted cognition and self-blame, childhood trauma and subconscious complexity.
Among them, physiological factors are the foundation, social and environmental factors are the triggers, and psychological factors are the key. Psychological factors are important factors in maintaining and exacerbating postpartum depression. Medication alone regulates physiology or improves the social environment, but psychological factors do not change, and it may be difficult to fully recover from depression. However, if only psychological factors are changed, even if physiological and social environmental factors do not improve, it is possible to prevent the aggravation of depression. Of course, the best solution is to improve the physical, social and psychological factors together.
Distorted cognition in psychological factors has a significant impact on the formation of postpartum depression. These distorted ideas, such as the idea of perfectionism, demand that you be a perfect mother. Inappropriate comparison: "Why are others so slim but so fat after giving birth?" "Why are others so capable and take care of their children so well, but they are in such a hurry?" Absolute reflection on "should" and "must": "I should always enjoy taking care of the baby." I'm not bored at all. "I should be a perfect mother." "I must be an all-round mother, take care of the children, clean up, and complete the housework." Wait a minute.
Another important psychological factor for women with postpartum depression is that they are ashamed of their depression and cannot accept the fact that they have postpartum depression. They think they should feel very happy when they have children. The current state of depression must indicate that they do not like children in their hearts, because they are perverted, incompetent, out of control, and even feel that they are bad women or crazy. Some people's lack of understanding and strange vision of postpartum depression has deepened the self-blame psychology of these women. Feelings of shame and self-blame further lead to worsening of postpartum depressive symptoms in women, which in turn leads to persistence.
If women who are depressed after childbirth are able to accept their own depression and soberly realize that it is a disease, like a cold or fever, it is not their own will, not what they have done wrong. Instead of being cognitively impaired, they said to themselves, "I have a condition called postpartum depression, but it's not my fault." I can cope with it with treatment. "My current state is the result of postpartum depression, which I don't have." "Although it is painful now, I will get through it, and I will return to my original intimacy and happiness."