Symptoms of severe postpartum depression: you should know how to correctly judge them in the future

Many patients with postpartum depression are not aware that they have this mental illness, so they often need the help of their families. Family members can judge whether they suffer from postpartum depression based on their many manifestations in life. To this end, they need to understand the many symptoms of postpartum depression.

1. Depression: The patient will feel low, sad and miserable for a long time, which will be more serious in the morning or at night. Sometimes you feel low in the day and high in the night, which is a reversal of day and night.

2. Bad temper: Patients may feel irritable towards other people's children or their own babies, and the target of their anger is usually their partner.

3. Fatigue: Generally, women after childbirth will feel tired, but patients with postpartum depression will be so tired that they think they are sick.

4. Insomnia: Patients generally have poor sleep or severe insomnia, so they feel drowsy during the day.

5. Loss of appetite: Patients usually do not feel like eating, but sometimes they may relieve stress by binge eating. However, they will feel guilty and uneasy about obesity afterwards.

6. Loss of interest: The patient no longer feels attracted to the things he used to enjoy, his previous interests become boring, and he lacks interest in daily activities. They often feel that their brains are slow to react, they have difficulty thinking about problems, their initiative decreases, they become bored with life, they lose confidence in life, and especially they lose interest in sex, which further affects the relationship between the two parties.

7. Unable to cope with life: The patient will feel that he does not have enough time and that things are not done well, but he loses the motivation to improve the situation.

8. Guilt: Patients may feel guilty for adding to the pressure on their family due to their illness, and may also blame themselves for looking at things from a negative perspective.

9. Anxiety: Patients often feel anxious because they are afraid that they don’t know how to take care of the baby, and at the same time they worry about the baby’s health.

10. Develop thinking disorders, persecution delusions, suicidal thoughts or attempts, and even infant harm or suicidal behavior.