Maternal Mental Health Resources
1 in 5 women will experience a maternal mental health complication. While these are all disorders that can affect anyone in their lifetime they are more prevalent in pregnancy and postpartum.
Perinatal mood and anxiety Disorders include:
Depression, Anxiety, Postpartum Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychosis and Perinatal Bipolar Disorder.
When to get help?
If you experience:
sadness, depression
anxiety, panic
feeling totally overwhelmed
feeling guilty, regretful, hopeless, ashamed
difficulty bonding with your baby
feeling irritable or angry with those around changes in appetite and sleep
upsetting thoughts you can’t get out of your mind
feeling as if you’re out of control
feeling like you should never have become a mother
worry you might hurt the baby or yourself