Depression can be a very serious condition. Depression is an illness that is very common, but also often hard to diagnose. The symptoms of depression may be so subtle or infrequent that you really do not know that you are depressed at all, and this often means that the person goes without diagnosis and...
Until recently, postpartum depression was often not taken seriously. Doctors point out that women’s mental health issues have been overlooked and labeled in the past as hysteria, not worthy of concern. The American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual (DSM IV) has never fully acknowledged the presence of postpartum illness, and as a result, doctors have not...