Not circular… It’s a spiral – we may return to the same place, but it looks different, the second time around, because it’s viewed from a slightly different perspective.

Anyway, if you want something other than circularity, or the semblance thereof, then you would have to have an objective, because if you don’t have a reference point, how will you know whether or not you’re progressing in the right direction? And if you can’t be sure that you’re headed in the right direction, there seems precious little point in moving off the spot.

Matt

PS Unless somebody’s going to reveal that they have experienced what they take to be PPD, then it would be difficult for any of us to discuss it, given that we would have no knowledge of it, and nobody to ask.

Sorry, I’ve kinda lost the thread a bit… An example of the brain solving a problem via “background processing,” for wont of a better description? Or serendipity? Bear in mind, of course, that I use these words as near-facsimiles of the concepts that I’m trying to explain – they may mean something different to you.

Anyway, for most people, the issue is in identifying what the problem actually is. You’d be surprised how few have even the vaguest idea. Or perhaps you wouldn’t.

To answer your question (by not answering it!), I could give an example from my own experience, but it would be largely meaningless to you – something that I had regarded as insurmountable and massively problematic might present itself as trivial, to you.

Matt

As much as you would like to believe they are, you’re experiences are not unique in the history of childbearing.

You’ve simply been brainwashed into believing they are by the profiteers running this show, who want to lock in life-long customers.

After reading over the various postings on your website Ivy, I believe that to be true because you come across as very sincere in your wanting to help other women.

I do not think you are a “knowing” participant in the Mothers Act disease mongering campaign in the same category as say Katherine Stone and Lauren Hale, and that’s why I’ve never written anything derogatory about you or your website in my articles.

I’m not about to fault somebody for being duped by quite possibly the most rapid gang of disease mongers that I’ve come across in my 5 years of investigating these types of profiteering schemes.

As for Ivy, I have read your story and it is not much different than many I have seen over my life-time.

Aside from the use of terms like “panic attack” instead of simply describing how new mothers often get extremely fearful and overwhelmed while taking care of newborns.

Absolutely nothing new there. I remember it well myself and thinking I was crazy. But the good thing was that 40 years ago, people assured me I was not and that it was normal to get fearful and overwhelmed.

Nobody taught me how to cope with having or taking care of a tiny little baby. It was a learning process – like everything else in life.

But thank God, nobody even mentioned drugs, or I probably would have been conned into taking them just like the women are now.

As far as depression, the answer would not be to start dosing a woman with antidepressants because they don’t even start to work (if at all) for 3 to 6 weeks.

That’s a lot of time that could be spent on getting to the core issue of what is really going on with the new mother.

Insomnia goes with the territory and the common sense thing to do is to find someone to help out with the child to make sure you can get some uninterrupted time to sleep.

The bottom line is there are umteen things that could and should be tried before a woman even thinks of taking drugs while pregnant or nursing.

But that’s not the way it works today. The doctor, who does not provide therapy, prescribes the drugs first and the woman is lucky if she ever gets referred for any type of therapy.

Also, in the 15-minute office call, the doctor does not ask anything about what might be going on in the woman’s life other than having a baby.

And 9 chances out of 10 there are plenty of issues that should be looked at and dealt with before a woman is drugged.

As a woman, mother, and grandmother, my interest will remain focused on the helpless children who never asked to be born, just as it has since I gave birth to my own children beginning some 40-odd years ago, and as my 7 grandchildren entered the world beginning 17 years ago.

You women need to quit acting like childbearing is some brand new experience, any different than it was for the rest of us, who somehow managed to make it through without drugging our infants in the womb or through nursing, every time mood changes occurred that we knew came with the territory.

By now, the risks and harms that can be done by psych drugs to the fetus and nursing infants is well documented and easily found on the internet.

Unless a drug is absolutely necessary for some life-threatening condition, in my opinion, a decision to take it, with knowledge that any possible harm could come to the child, is selfish.

The few women who experience true postpartum depression or psychosis are easy to spot and they can get help. Train doctors to be on the look-out if there are none out there competent enough to see it.

Screening the entire 4 million women who give birth each year in the US is totally unnecessary and amounts to nothing but a recruitment dragnet for the new “reproductive psychiatry” industry.

People need to look at the whole picture here. This disease mongering campaign is by far not solely for the financial benefit of Big Pharma.