I am a 25 year old woman who had postpartum anxiety symptoms. It began about 1 week after the delivery of my fourth child. I experienced problems with insomnia, anxiety, loss of appetite, and mild anxiety attacks. I tried to use some supplements recommended by a nutritionist who lived in our neighborhood for about [...]
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Of course, looking back on it, I could smack myself on the forehead and mutter, “What a stupid thing to do!” But at the time, the significance of my clinical decision did not seem so important. Evey was a young mother with severe post-partum depression and anxiety. She couldn’t sleep, had obsessive thoughts of self-harm, and had not bonded with her son after delivery. When she started her supplements, most of her troubling symptoms resolved within one week. She was ecstatic, and I was rather pleased myself. After the second week of treatment, she announced that she had stopped her hemp protein supplement, because I had accidentally mailed one that was plain rather than vanilla flavored. She was at the time taking 4 ? teaspoons per day. I told her that it was fine, and that I would mail her the right flavor of hemp protein, and she can get back to it as soon as she receive it. Between delays caused by holiday mail schedules (and perhaps also due to being lulled into a false sense of security), a week passed by before she began her hemp protein again. She had weathered the week quite well, but she began to notice towards the end of the week that some of her anxiety and nausea was coming back. I run a hotline to help women going through postpartum depression. The symptoms are devastating, where the woman usually loses her appetite, has sleeping disorders, and obsessive thoughts. These are just a few of the devastating symptoms. The word “postpartum” got a different meaning since I met Dr. Lee-Bloem. With her it no longer [...] |
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