Temporary state of depression is common to many new mothers - it is a natural phenomenon that is gradually taking place. Postpartum depression begins with similar symptoms, but they are becoming deeper, tightened and is likely to disrupt the ability of any activity.
Mother in a state of depression feels weak and feeble, not sleeping and eats little, it was plagued by obsessive thoughts about their own inadequacy as a mother. She was ashamed that she can not properly care for their child, nagging feeling of guilt gradually raises the idea of self-abasement.
Physiologically, the presence of postpartum depression manifests constant headaches, heart palpitations (in some cases, even panic attacks), painful anxiety. Mom did not consider it necessary to seek the help of professionals - partly from a sense of shame, partly because of the reluctance to acknowledge the existence of a serious problem.
Mismatch of expectations during pregnancy and reality, to stun the woman after the child, leading to frustration and develop a guilt complex. Exaggerated sense of responsibility is also one of the causes of postpartum depression - Concerned about his condition does not admit to the mother-to-child family, willing to help, because we know that only she will cope with all the best.
Deliberately isolating themselves from the company of others, the woman further exacerbates their position and no longer burdened by loneliness, which is also one of the symptoms of severe depression. Later symptoms do not disappear, and continue to accumulate, recorded a total inability to perform daily tasks mother, burdened by exceptionally bleak vision of the future.