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Katherine Stone suffered postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder with the birth of her son in... Full Bio
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O Magazine on Post-Adoption Depression by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health So I guess I'm not the only one covering post-adoption depression this month. There's also that Oprah lady ... ;-)Birdie Meyer, president of Postpartum Support International ... Read on »
Post-Adoption Depression: Adoptive Mothers Need Not Suffer In Silence by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Research shows that adoptive mothers are as likely to suffer depression as birth mothers. It's called post-adoption de ... Read on »
Maine Tackles Postpartum Depression by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health The Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians (MAPP) has developed a Postpartum Depression Project in recognition of the fact that postpartum depression is under-diagnosed ... Read on »
Did Brooke Shields Have A Chemical Imbalance? by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Brooke Shields recently received an advocacy award from the Hope for Depression Research Foundation in Manhattan. At the event, she spoke about her experience with postpartum ... Read on »
New Features on Postpartum Progress: Favorite & Retweet by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I heard from several readers this week that my post "The Symptoms of Postpartum Depression & Anxiety (In Plain Mama English)" was one of your all-time favorites. ... Read on »
NJ Symposium on Sensitive Perinatal Bereavement Care by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health The Englewood Hospital Medical Center and Northern New Jersey Maternal Child Health Consortium will host "Providing Compassionate Care for Perinatal Loss and Grief" ... Read on »
Fight for Preemies: How Treated & Untreated Depression During Pregnancy Can Lead to Preterm Birth by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Today is Fight For Preemies Day, hosted by the March of Dimes. More than 400 bloggers across the country are writing about prematurity, and how important it is for babies to ... Read on »
Told It's a 5-Month Wait to See A Psychiatrist? Tips on What to Do Next to Get Help for Postpartum... by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health After I wrote last week about my opinion that women with postpartum depression should try to seek out a specialist for treatment, I heard from a family physician in a major me ... Read on »
Australians Believe Postnatal Depression Is "Normal" Part of Motherhood by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health It's Postnatal Depression Week down under in Australia. (For the uninitiated, postnatal depression is the "Queen's English" term for postpartum depression.) Beyondb ... Read on »
MGH Seeking Participants for Two Clinical Trials: Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy and Treatment of... by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Women's Mental Health is conducting two clinical trials that may be of interest:Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy: If you are pregnan ... Read on »
The Symptoms of Postpartum Depression & Anxiety (In Plain Mama English) by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health What does it feel like to have postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety? What are the symptoms? How do you know when you have it? I thought we'd have a talk today about t ... Read on »
Treating Treatment-Resistant Postpartum Depression by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health This week at the Beyond Blue blog, Therese Borchard tackles the topic of treatment-resistant depression. According to the Mayo Clinic... "With treatment-resistant depres ... Read on »
NIMH Awards Grant to Study Ways To Get Depressed Mothers To Follow Treatment by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Yesterday the National Institute of Mental Health announced it awarded a challenge grant to Judy Garber, PhD, of Vanderbilt University to develop and test a method encouraging ... Read on »
Babble.com: What Causes Postpartum OCD and How to Get Help by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I was very pleased to be able to meet Heather Turgeon, MFT, at the Postpartum Support International annual conference this summer. Heather just wrote a piece on her Science o ... Read on »
"Go Back To Work, Put the Kid in Daycare & PPD Will Go Away" by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health The columnists at the Wall Street Journal's working parents column, The Juggle, took on the topic of whether to take antidepressants during pregnancy with a column called &quo ... Read on »
Postpartum Progress' New Research Page Provides Better Access to Studies on Postpartum Depression by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Since it is so hard to keep track of the research coming in almost daily on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, I've decided to add a research page to Postpartum Progress. ... Read on »
Beyond Postpartum Blogger in New WebMD Video on PPD by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Amber Koter-Puline, author of the Beyond Postpartum blog, is featured in a new video on WebMD about postpartum depression. Check it out! Great job Amber! Read on »
One Mom On Rising Up Out of the Hell of Postpartum Depression by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health This is a poignant post from Tamra at Surprisingly Sane, who is recognizing her one-year "anniversary" of suffering from postpartum depression. She starts out descr ... Read on »
Stigma Sucks. by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health A young man named Robert Enke, the goalkeeper for Germany's national soccer team, killed himself by jumping in front of a train this week. Just awful.When writing about his s ... Read on »
Postpartum Support International Part of First Lady's Launch of Service Nation by Katherine S. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Susan Stone, past president of Postpartum Support International and blogger at Perinatal Pro, reports that today at George Washington University in Washington DC, First Lady M ... Read on »