How To Overcome Perinatal And Postpartum Melancholy |
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| By Alan B. Densky, CH | ||||
| Everyone has feelings of sadness. For most people, these
feelings last for only hours or days. Almost twenty percent
of the people in the world, however, experience major
depression, in which these moods last several days, weeks,
or months. These emotions cause the person to develop
problems performance in work, family, or interpersonal
relationships, which can become severe. Women who experience symptoms of depression when they become pregnant are sometimes treated for perinatal depression. This problem can begin at any point after a woman becomes pregnant, and up till the infant is a year old. Usually, however, women who encounter this condition after childbirth are diagnosed with postpartum depression. Perinatal depression or postpartum depression is linked with several causes. These causes can be physiological. For example, women with a previous or familial history of severe depression or other mental health problems are more likely to experience perinatal depression or postpartum depression. In addition, alterations in hormone levels after childbirth, such as drops in estrogen and progesterone amounts, can result in this condition. Postpartum thyroid disorders sometimes cause signs of depression such as exhaustion, negative moods, and hopelessness. Sometimes, mental depression is a result of emotional factors. Mothers may feel tired and overwhelmed in learning to cope with the demands made by the new child. These feelings are further increased by the absence of support from family, friends, or significant other. Financial issues can also contribute to the development of postpartum depression. Perinatal depression and postpartum depression can have serious consequences for both the woman and the new baby. Anxiety and depression can hinder a woman from bonding completely with her infant or being able to meet her baby's physiological and emotional requirements. This can worsen the woman's sense of insignificance, self-blame, and self-doubt. The child is also stressed by the new mother's problems. An inability to connect with his or her mother can result in the baby to experience trust issues in emotional attachments throughout life. In addition, babies who do not have their physiological or emotional requirements met typically do not grow and develop normally. This problem, called "failure to thrive," can be very serious or even deadly to the child. Perinatal depression or postpartum depression can damage everyone in the family. The spouse or partner sometimes feels ignored or unable to decrease the woman's depression symptoms. This can irreparably hurt the partnership. Older children in the family may have comparable emotions, and exhibit school-related or peer problems as well. Depression affects the entire family. For this reason, women who have perinatal depression or postpartum depression need to get depression treatment as soon as possible. Many techniques are available, like talk therapy and drug therapy. Medicines, however, are often dangerous for nursing infants, and sometimes have unpredictable results due to the great hormonal fluctuations a woman experiences during these hectic months. Moreover, traditional counseling approaches can be time-consuming and costly. Two approaches for dealing with depression that do not use medicines and often quickly show incredibly effective results are hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Traditional Hypnotherapy is most effective for persons who can be effortlessly hypnotized or can accept suggestions without feeling a need to critique or understand them. Ericksonian Hypnotherapy is quite useful for clients who often overanalyze. These strategies allow clients to unwind and eliminate tension. For people who tend to be more critical or analytical individuals, NLP is typically more effective. With NLP, trained practitioners give clients depression help by assisting them to restructure their mental processes. This approach can, quite literally, help a client think through the depressive condition and conquer it. People can conquer depression by developing NLP tools such as anchoring. They learn to think of situations when they were happy and in control of their circumstances. Recalling the event renews these emotions. Clients are coached to touch two fingers together and remember these emotions. The subconscious mind connects the touch of the two fingers with the emotions. Thus, the finger touch becomes an "anchor." Then, when the client begins to become overwhelmed, he or she activates the anchor by putting these same two fingers together again. This elicits emotions of self-control and creates empowerment. Through another strategy known as the Flash, clients learn to think away negative emotions. They instruct their subconscious minds to instantly substitute positive thoughts for negative ones. As negative thoughts arise, the mind instantly substitutes them for positive thoughts. After developing this approach, clients find it nearly impossible to think negative thoughts! Summary: Perinatal depression and postpartum depression often have disastrous results for a woman and her new infant. The remainder of the family may also be profoundly affected because of these conditions. Due to the possible significance of the consequences of this condition, new mothers with depression need to get treatment as soon as symptoms begin. Two quite effective strategies that do not require medicine or enormous expenditures of time and money are hypnosis and NLP. |
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| About The Author Alan B. Densky, CH specializes in stress and depression related symptoms as a certified hypnotist and NLP Practitioner. During his 30-year career he's helped thousands of clients. He supplies CDs for hypnosis depression therapy. Visit his Neuro-VISION hypnosis website for the hypnosis article index, or watch his free videos on hypnosis. |
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