When Postpartum Depression Leads to Psychosis Tammy J. Stratton Having a baby is a happy time for new moms! But for some moms it can turn into something worse! Dads helping out with a new baby can prevent new moms from having severe postpartum depression! This is what happens when a new mom doesn’t get help or enough rest. But the end result could lead to postpartum psychosis if this mom doesn’t get enough rest!! The mothers that you see are stressed out from dealing with a new baby. This
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Jane’s Postpartum Depression in "The Yellow Wallpaper" In the "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes her postpartum depression through the character of Jane. Jane was locked up for bed rest and was not able to go outside to help alleviate her nervous condition. Jane develops an attachment to the wallpaper and discovers a woman in the wallpaper. This shows that her physical treatment is only leading her to madness. The background of postpartum depression can be summarized by the
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Brooke Shields: The Terror of Postpartum Depression Postpartum depression is a commonly overlooked disability that affects mothers worldwide. It slowly deteriorates a mother’s mental state and can eventually lead to violent consequences. Brooke Shields is a famous actor who was hit with crippling depression as a result of having a child. After seeking out help‚ she prevailed and could have a happy family and life. One in ten women are affected by postpartum depression after giving birth (Miller 14)
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background The postpartum or puerperium is a stage that produces changes and adaptations in women‚ couples and family. Effective coping‚ during this stage‚ depends on the relationship between the demands of stressful or difficult situations and the recourses that the puerperal individual has. Roy (2004)‚ in her Middle Range Theory about the Coping and Adaptation Processing‚ defines Coping as the ’’behavioral and cognitive efforts that a person makes to meet the environment
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Basic Consideration: Whall’s evaluation criteria is being applied to gather knowledge of the theoretical adequacy regarding Beck’s Theory of Postpartum Depression. The research article “From Practice to Midrange Theory and Back Again” chronicles this substantive midrange nursing theory of Cheryl Tatano Beck (Lasiuk & Ferguson‚ 2005). As referenced by the authors‚ the major concepts of Beck’s theory are clearly identified as loss of control‚ encountering terror‚ dying of self‚ struggling to survive
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MENTAL ILLNESS AND ITS TREATMENTS Postpartum depression is defined as‚ “a mood disorder that can affect women after childbirth… [and can cause] feelings of extreme sadness‚ anxiety‚ and exhaustion that may make it difficult for them to complete daily care activities for themselves or for others.” Today postpartum depression is a mental illness that is widely known‚ but in the late 1800’s when Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” postpartum depression was not known. In fact‚ Charlotte
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from a postpartum mood disorder. A postpartum mood disorder is an illness‚ just like heart disease. It changes the way you act and feel and can happen at anytime during the first year after the birth of your baby. There are different kinds of postpartum mood disorders: (1) postpartum anxiety and/or panic disorder (2) postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder and (3) postpartum depression. Who has postpartum mood disorders? Any woman who is pregnant or has had a baby can have a postpartum mood
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actually what would have helped her get better in the first place. The best treatment to depression is to get up‚ go do stuff‚ and spend time with friends and family. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is trying to get across how women were seen as such fragile beings‚ and no one would listen to what they thought was best for them. John and other physicians of the time thought that the best way to treat postpartum depression was to pull the woman away from her baby‚ and bring her to a vacation home that was isolated
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Care Plans. Care plan for a long-standing condition called myxoedema‚ which is a condition I had never come across before. Therefore‚ in order to compile an accurate and comprehensive care plan I had to look into what myxoedema was. Myxoedema is caused by hypothyroidism (under activity of the thyroid gland). Myxoedema refers to the buildup of mucoploysaccharide in the subcutaneous tissues of the skin (Kumar and Clark‚ 1998). Signs and symptoms of myxoedema include oedematous swelling of the
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”(Feldstein) The story is about a young mother who experiences with postpartum depression. While the narrator is clearly suffering from a kind of psychological distress at the beginning of the story‚ her mental state is worsened by her husband’s medical opinion that she confines herself to the house. Using the story and other research we can now see how the treatment for postpartum depression has improve and change over the years. Postpartum depression After using the term of “the rest cure”‚ a long time researchers
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