More about postpartum depression
- Depressed mood—tearfulness, hopelessness, and feeling empty inside, with or without severe anxiety.
- Loss of pleasure in either all or almost all of your daily activities.
- Appetite and weight change—usually a drop in appetite and weight, but sometimes the opposite.
- Sleep problems—usually trouble with sleeping, even when your baby is sleeping.
- Noticeable change in how you walk and talk—usually restlessness, but sometimes sluggishness.
- Extreme fatigue or loss of energy.
- Feelings of worthlessness or guilt, with no reasonable cause.
- Difficulty concentrating and making decisions.
- Thoughts about death or suicide. Some women with PPD have fleeting, frightening thoughts of harming their babies: these thoughts tend to be fearful thoughts, rather than urges to harm.
Last Updated:
June 30, 2006
