Postpartum Depression Quotes

• Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

  Richard Codey

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

  Brooke Shields

  Perspective, Priorities, Scary

  "Battle to Replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Begins". "Paula Zahn Now", edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Grief, Bereavement

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

  David D. Burns

  Differences, Numbers, World

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?

  Doris Grumbach

  Depression, Baby, Book

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.

  Peter Eisenman

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

  Ariel Gore

  Support, Community, Understanding

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• Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.

  Jose Gonzalez

  People, Physicians, Sides

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• I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Children, Two, House

  "Work And Babies: Women Still Have To Pick Their Poison (But Men Are Evolving!)" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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