How to get over postpartum depression

Depression erodes a person's consciousness and controls their actions. If it is not treated and controlled in time, it can easily lead to tragic consequences. However, in recent years, a new group of people with depression has emerged, that is, women who have given birth. Relatives must help pregnant women get out of this painful valley. So, how to get out of postpartum depression? Let's find out together.

How to get over postpartum depression

(1) Supportive psychotherapy: Supportive psychotherapy is also known as supportive therapy. It means that in the process of medical care, medical staff effectively use persuasion, encouragement, sympathy, comfort, support, understanding and assurance to treat patients' emotions, which can effectively eliminate patients' negative emotions and put them in the best attitude to accept treatment, thereby ensuring the smooth progress of treatment and keeping the disease away from the body.

(2) Social psychotherapy: This depression psychotherapy method is mainly used to treat acute symptoms of depression in adults, aiming to alleviate depressive symptoms and improve some social problems of depressed patients. Common social problems among patients with depression include four aspects: abnormal sadness reactions, social conflicts, difficulty in changing personal roles, and lack of ability to get along with others.

(3) Music therapy: Music therapy is the most popular psychological therapy for depression among patients. The human limbic system and brainstem porous structure play an important buffering role in the five internal organs and body functions, and music can have a direct or indirect impact on these neural structures.

How to Prevent Postpartum Depression

1. Improve perinatal health care: Use maternity schools and other means to popularize basic knowledge about pregnancy and childbirth, alleviate pregnant women's anxiety and fear about pregnancy and childbirth, and improve health care.

2. Close observation: Pregnant women with a family history of mental illness should be closely observed regularly, avoid any adverse stimulation, and provide more care and guidance.

3. Adequate care: The entire process and pain of childbirth have a great impact on postpartum depression, especially for pregnant women who have a long childbirth process and too much pressure, they should be given sufficient care.

4. Psychological guidance: Pregnant women with high-risk factors such as poor maternal delivery history, stillbirth, fetal malformation, abnormal mental state during pregnancy, etc. should be given more attention and receive psychological guidance as soon as possible.

Postpartum depression has a great impact on women and their entire families. Relatives and friends must pay more attention to the emotional changes of pregnant women and nip the disease in the bud. In fact, there are many ways to help women who have just given birth get out of depression. The key lies in the patient herself. Don't put too much pressure and responsibility on yourself. When you are upset, you must remember to vent and don't suppress yourself for a long time.