Search EmpowHer  
     
     
Kristin Davis's picture

Kristin Park: PPD's Elusive Symptoms

69
vote
     
     

When I suffered from postpartum depression, I kept insisting that I wasn't depressed. My vision of a depressed woman consisted of lots of weeping, general moping around, hand-wringing, etc. Not a woman who was overcome by nausea 100 times worse than any morning sickness and vomiting violently when not on the toilet with diarrhea. I was a gastrointestinal specialist's fantasy. And after I was sent to a G.I.


     
     
alison b's picture

What is So Bad about Feeling Sad? Book: "Against Happiness"

62
vote
     
     
A new book, with an attention-grabbing title, "Against Happiness", discusses America's gravitation towards being happy. In fact, there is an entire new profession, that of "positive psychology", related to just this topic.