Postpartum Depression (PPD), Postnatal Depression is pure "classic" Junk science.
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Psychiatry is Junk science |
Introduction:
- See also the case of "Pregnant". (Prenatal depression caused by the news that the father won't marry the unwed mother.)
- The root etiology of PPD is the mother hates the child and/or what changes the child has forced upon the mother's lifestyle and freedom. In a post-graduate psychology class, PPD came up for discussion, since it has the appearances, on the surface, of a depression behaviour involuntarily triggered by the fluctuating chemicals in the woman's body during pregnancy. The professor, noting that there were 4 young women in the class, opened it up for discussion, "So what do you girls think about PPD?" After a brief silence, one student said she had a close girlfriend who had been recently diagnosed with PPD. The professor then quietly asked, "What do you think is going on with her?". The student paused and then said, "She hates the baby". Nothing further was said and discussion moved on to a new topic.
- Having a newborn child is one of the most difficult, demanding and physically stressful thing a human can endure on planet earth! Mothers of newborns need our encouragement and appreciation! Until you have experienced it, you have no idea how much work it is!
- Postpartum Depression (PPD) is a very real depression brought on by the mother's sudden realization that her "party days are over", not chemical imbalances. "Post conviction depression" (PCD) has been diagnosed in criminals sentenced to 20 years in jail for the same reason PPD has been diagnosed with new moms, who realize for the next 20 years, their life of freedom as they knew it is over! The etiology (cause) of PPD is narcissism, not low-self esteem. This fact will not only infuriate women, but bring about the wrath and ridicule of both the media, women's groups and the psychiatric industry in general. Since PPD (Postpartum Depression) is all about "women, the female reproductive system and babies", most treat this subject with kid gloves, avoid the subject or just say what is popular to avoid public criticism. Truth, however is more important than appeasement through deception.
- Men and Women can indeed both suffer from Postpartum Depression (PPD) because when the baby is born, they suddenly comprehend just how much their lives are going to change. Diaper changes, staying home Friday nights, feedings every 2 hours, child support payments equal to the cost of a Porsche over 20 years, singing "Mary had a little lamb" rather than dancing to the latest rap music!
- Some women who suffer from Postpartum Depression may "take off the party shoes" accept the new responsibility but they are very unhappy about it.
- Postpartum Depression is not listed as a separate and distinct illness in the current DSM. It is listed under Major Depression as depression with postpartum onset within the 4 weeks postpartum. There is a reason for this.
- Postpartum Depression (PPD) has become both a lightening rod of debate in the world of psychiatry and mental heath. The PPD of Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise who denied it has made PPD the "flagship" mental illness. It is raised up to the world as proof of chemical imbalances as triggers for depression.
- PPD has one of the big windfall profit "mental illnesses" for the psychiatry industry and they both guard and defend their junk science views with avid zeal!
- PPD is supposed to be caused by a chemical imbalance in the female body. But the entire idea of "chemical imbalances" as a trigger (etiology) for mental illness is myth and unproven scientifically. PPD, however, seems on the surface to prove that chemical imbalances indeed cause depression. After all, we know for a fact that the hormones in a woman's body are all over the map in wild swings before, during and after child birth. We do not question that these hormones (estrogen, protestrogen etc) do swing widely after child birth, we simply dismiss them as the cause of depression.
- True to form, the shameless profit seeking psychiatry industry has even begun to openly promote and diagnose men with Postpartum Depression (PPD)! Men with PPD? Yes! But the gullible general public merely accept the word of these "junk pop-psychologists" who have begun to treat men with PPD, and fail to notice it kind of messes up their foundational theory. If PPD is caused by wide swings of hormones associated with pregnancy and childbirth, how can this affect men? Well it can't and it should be proof to any open minded "thinking" person, that hormone swings associated with pregnancy and childbirth are not the cause of PPD in women either! "10% of new fathers and 14% of new mothers are affected by Postpartum depression", (psychologist James F. Paulson, assistant professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va)
- Men suffer from PPD because the woman "gives all the attention" to the baby not them. Most men learn that a new born baby is a form of birth control in itself! As with women, men who suffer from postpartum depression are self centered and narcissistic.
- Since the psychiatry industry has begun diagnosing and treating men with PPD, perhaps men can now genuinely tell women what having a baby is really like from first hand experience! I can just hear it now. A man says to a group of women, "I know exactly what you women went through in child birth. In fact, I experienced an intense pain on the right side of my rear pelvis muscle: The right gluteus maximus (bum muscle). This just happens to be where I keep my wallet... so you might say my experience in childbirth as a man was in the wallet!" This just illustrates with a bit of satire how utterly stupid and hypocritical the psychiatry industry has become. They widely advertise that PPD is caused by the swing of female hormones during pregnancy, then to make more money, start diagnosing men with PPD! When will people wake up to this utter deception!
- Today, psychiatrists actually think that Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a disease: "What Causes PMS and PMDD? Although the etiology of PMS and PMDD remains uncertain at present, researchers now concur that these disorders represent biological phenomena rather than purely psychological events. Recent research indicates that women who are vulnerable to premenstrual mood changes do not have abnormal levels of hormones or some type of hormonal dysregulation, but rather a particular sensitivity to normal cyclical hormonal changes. Fluctuations in circulating estrogen and progesterone cause marked effects on central neurotransmission, specifically serotonergic, noradrenergic and dopaminergic pathways. In particular, accumulating evidence implicates the serotonergic system in the pathogenesis of PMS and PMDD. Recent data suggest that women with premenstrual mood disorders have abnormal serotonin neurotransmission, which is thought to be associated with symptoms such as irritability, depressed mood and carbohydrate craving. There may also be some role for gamma amino-butyric acid (GABA), the main inhibitory neurotransmitter, in the pathogenesis of PMS/PMDD, however this remains to be defined." (Premenstrual syndrome and Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, The Center for Women's Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital)
A. Etiology of Postpartum Depression (PPD):
- The psychiatry industry really has no idea what causes PPD.
- First they say it is caused by the fluctuation of hormones immediately after childbirth, but then they admit for every 14 women diagnosed with PPD, 10 men are diagnosed with PDD. It also fails to account for the fact that the vast majority of women who give birth never suffer from PPD, even though they do experience the same fluctuations in hormones.
- Second, they clearly admit that there is a direct relationship between how happy a women is in her marriage and the incidence of PPD. In other worlds, psychiatrists know that the most women who suffer from PPD, are in unhappy marriages, or and unstable home environment.
- The fact is that clinical studies have been unable to make any direct connection to fluctuations in a woman's body chemistry and PPD.
- Also PPD almost always strikes women with their first child. When the woman accepts her responsibility, she is cured, when she does not, the depression continues. PPD occurs with the first child, but far more rarely with the second or third. Women who have normal post pregnancy experiences with their first child, rarely develop PPD on the second or third. A woman who develops PPD with the first child is less likely to develop it with subsequent children. However, some women never get over their depression of PPD no matter how many children they have, because they simply do not really want to be mothers. This gives evidence for a social, emotional, spiritual cause for PPD, rather than chemical.
- It is obvious therefore, that spiritual reasons, not physical, are the cause of PPD.
- The true cause of PPD is found in getting the woman to answer this question: Why are you depressed about the fact that you now have a child?
- "What Causes Postpartum Depression? The postpartum period is characterized by a rapid shift in the hormonal environment. Within the first 48 hours after delivery, estrogen and progesterone concentrations fall dramatically. As these gonadal steroids modulate neurotransmitter systems involved in the regulation of mood, many investigators have proposed a role for these hormonal shirts in the emergence of postpartum affective illness. While it appears that there is no consistent correlation between serum levels of estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, or thyroid hormones and the occurrence of postpartum mood disturbance, some investigators hypothesize that there is a subgroup of women who are particularly sensitive to the hormonal changes that take place after delivery. This population of women may be more vulnerable to PPD and to other hormonally driven mood disturbances, such as those occurring during the premenstrual phase of the menstrual cycle or during the perimenopause. Other factors may play a role in the etiology (cause) of PPD. One of the most consistent findings is that among women who report marital dissatisfaction and/or inadequate social supports, postpartum depressive illness is more common. Several investigators have also demonstrated that stressful life events occurring either during pregnancy or near the time of delivery appear to increase the likelihood of postpartum depression. While all of these factors may act together to cause PPD, the emergence of this disorder probably reflects an underlying vulnerability to affective illness. Women with histories of major depression or bipolar disorder are more vulnerable to PPD, and women who develop PPD will often go on to have recurrent episodes of depression unrelated to pregnancy or childbirth. ... Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is well tolerated and rapidly effective for severe postpartum depression and psychosis." (Postpartum Psychiatric disorders, Postpartum Depression, PPD, The Center for Women's Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital)
- "If these shocking presumptions were not an actual description of the current state of the Psychology industry, they might be laughable. But regrettably, these simplistic theories are widely applied and widely accepted in a society that naively trusts psychologists to be scientific and objective, optimistic and positive, and caring and other-oriented." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 266)
B. The Bible and Postpartum Depression (PPD)
- Twice the Bible warns of the sin of "a lack of natural family affection". Rom 1:31; 2 Tim 3:3. The Greek word is "astorge" with means "a + storge". "storge" means "family love" and is one of 5 Greek words for love. "a" means lacking or not "storge". When a man or woman does not have a normal, natural bond with their child, it is not time for anti-depressants, it is time to repent!
- Of course, selfishness, high self esteem and narcissism are also sins.
C. Brooke Shields and Postpartum Depression (PPD):
- Brooke Shields has become the prime spokesperson of the psychiatry industry for Postpartum Depression. She is their poster child! Brooke Shields is a self professed narcissist. There are so many obvious things wrong with how Brooke Shields promotes PPD as a chemical illness, we are at a loss as to where to start!
- Tom Cruise, being the spokesman for the wacky non-Christian cult of Scientology, made the mistake of dismissing PPD altogether. Tom Cruise called Brooke "irresponsible" for using the antidepressant Paxil to cure PPD and instead told the women of the world to try multi-vitamins and get off their butts and do a bit of exercise. What resulted was what Scotty in Star Trek said would happen, when matter and anti-matter collided: A huge "nuclear" explosion in the media! Tom Cruise of course lost that battle, even though he was partly right. Good nutrition and exercise help almost all mentally ill people, but the real cause was not chemical or physical at all. Brooke Shield's depression was a spiritual problem. This Tom Cruise, being an anti-Christian Scientologist was unable to comprehend.
- Brooke Shields is the spokesman for Tupperware and SMART Girls program where she promotes high self esteem among young girls. If Brooke Shields went to church more often, she would know that high self esteem is a sin!
- The depression Brooke Shields experienced was very real. This is what Tom Cruise did not understand. The depression Shield's experienced was not caused by a chemical imbalance of hormones that affected neurotransmitters of her brain.
- The depression Brooke Shields was caused by the sudden realization that her party days were over! She had been a selfish, narcissistic starlet from age 1 when she posed for Ivory Snow commercials. She was a runway model at age 3 and at age 12 she was nude in the movie Pretty Baby. In July 1978, at the age of thirteen, Brooke Shields made front page news in Photo Magazine. The young American film prodigy was promoting the film Pretty Baby directed by Louis Malle. In the magazine, a ten-year old Brooke is shown wearing makeup, her glistening body posed naked in a bathtub. The picture comes from a series taken by Garry Gross, an advertising photographer from New York who was regularly employed by Brooke's mother to photograph her daughter, then a model with the Ford agency. At the time, Gross was working on a project for publication entitled The Woman in the Child, in which he wanted to reveal the femininity of prepubescent girls by comparing them to adult women. Brooke Shields posed for him both as a normal young girl and in the nude, her body heavily made up and oiled, receiving a fee of $450 from Playboy Press, Gross's partner in the project. Her mother signed a contract giving Gross full rights to exploit the images of her daughter. The series was first published in Little Women, and then in Sugar and Spice, a Playboy Press publication. Large prints were also exhibited by Charles Jourdan on 5th Avenue in New York.
- Brooke Shields outright admits that she was self centered and concerned only for her own world. This is what caused her depression. She understood that with children, she was going to have to deny herself and serve the children. Being a rich, spoiled, self centered brat her whole life, this was a hard thing to do!
- Brooke Shields claims it was the antidepressant Paxil that cured her of her PPD. How ridiculous! She started getting praise and support from all over the world for being a mother and she realized that she could be the "mother" others look up to as an example. This is essentially just an extension of her selfish narcissism. The more she stopped being depressed, the more people praised her! Additionally, she experienced the joy that comes with raising children. She also just made her mind up that she was not going to be depressed any more!
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"In a strange way, it was comforting to me when my obstetrician told me that my feelings of extreme despair and my suicidal thoughts were directly tied to a biochemical shift in my body. Once we admit that postpartum is a serious medical condition, then the treatment becomes more available and socially acceptable. With a doctor's care, I have since tapered off the medication but, without it, I wouldn't have become the loving parent I am today." (War of Words, New York Times, July 1, 2005) "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression" (War of Words, New York Times, July 1, 2005) |
Brooke actually tells us that psychiatrists told her that PPD was caused by the natural fluctuation of female hormones associated with pregnancy. She also mockingly suggests that Tom Cruise could not experience PPD, since he is a man. While this surely convinced a ton of uninformed women, the fact is that the psychiatry industry treats both men and women for PPD! "10% of new fathers and 14% of new mothers are affected by Postpartum depression", (psychologist James F. Paulson, assistant professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va) |
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"Tom should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment options are best for them." (War of Words, New York Times, July 1, 2005) |
Shields suggests that women are well equipped to decide how to treat themselves for PPD. This echoes the feminist movement's rant for abortion: "A woman has a right to control her own body" Sure, but the baby is not her body! As for PPD, if a woman really can know how to treat PPD, what do we need psychiatrists for? |
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"My version of being selfish has shifted," Shields says. "My old version was to be comfortable, to get sleep and exercise. Now it's my children's worlds." (Cookie Magazine, Jennifer Tung) |
Now the truth comes out! Shields admits she is a narcissist and selfish! Before PPD, it was all about her world and not the children. This is exactly what caused her depression! Once she ignored self and focused on the children, she was cured! |
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"Shields... has one other hope for her children: that they have high self-esteem" (Cookie Magazine, Jennifer Tung) |
Of course she is making further parenting errors by focusing on her children's world. She is turning them into future narcissists by teaching them they are more important than she is! Hey Brooke, high self esteem is a sin! |
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"PPD causes one to feel so ashamed and desolate that it is very difficult to admit to. There is such a stigma around not being attached to your baby and happy with motherhood." (Brooke Shields, On her pregnancy and postpartum depression, ivillage.com) |
Brooke admits that the primary etiology of her depression was not being attached to her baby and unhappy as a mother. Scripture actually calls this a sin and is described as, "a lack of natural family affection". Rom 1:31; 2 Tim 3:3 |
D. Andrea Yates drowns her 5 children in bathtub
- Andrea Yates escaped both death and jail because he was not responsible for drowning her 5 children because she suffered from postpartum depression. Since January 2007, Yates vacations in the Kerrville low security Texas state mental hospital.
- Get out of jail card: Postpartum depression. The mental insanity plea and insanity defense: "not criminally responsible for reasons of insanity" (Denying personal responsibility for sin.)
- Andrea Yates was a narcissist more concerned with herself, than her children. Classic PPD!
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Andrea Yates and her 5 kids. |
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E. Diagnosing men with Postpartum depression:
- True to form, the shameless profit seeking psychiatry industry has even begun to openly promote and diagnose men with Postpartum Depression (PPD)!
- The idea of diagnosing men with PPD is pure Freud. Whereas he failed to convince people that men could have hysteria (since the word literally means uterus) the junk psychologists of today have convinced people that men can have PPD!
- "In the 1890s, Krafft-Ebing succeeded in convincing his medical colleagues that sexual perversions-for example, oral and anal sex-are symptoms of bodily diseases. At the same time, Freud failed to convince them that men, too, could "have hysteria." Why did nineteenth-century physicians believe that hysteria could affect only women? Because it was called "hysteria," a term that derives from the Greek hystera, which means "uterus,"" (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 10)
- Men with PPD? Yes! But the gullible general public merely accept the word of these "junk pop-psychologists" who have begun to treat men with PPD, and fail to notice it kind of messes up their foundational theory.
- If PPD is caused by wide swings of hormones associated with pregnancy and childbirth, how can this affect men? Well it can't and it should be proof to any open minded "thinking" person, that hormone swings associated with pregnancy and childbirth are not the cause of PPD in women either!
- "In this national sample [size of 5089 cases], 14% of mothers and 10% of fathers exhibited levels of depressive symptoms on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale that have been associated with clinical diagnoses, confirming other findings of a high prevalence of postpartum maternal depression but highlighting that postpartum depression is a significant issue for fathers as well. ... On the basis of the dichotomous depression scores, 14% of mothers and 10% of fathers had moderate or severe depressive symptoms. ... The prevalence of postpartum depression in mothers (14%) reported in our study was consistent with other research and national estimates. Postpartum depression in fathers was strikingly high (10%) and more than twice as common than in the general adult male population in the United States. This finding is similar to the 1 previous national finding on this topic in that higher than expected rates of depression were found among fathers in the early parenting years. It adds to the body of knowledge, however, in that Lyons-Ruth et al included parents of children birth to age 3 years, and the current study focused on the postpartum period only. Because the first year of a child's life is particularly sensitive to parent-level influences, our current findings suggest the call for increased awareness of postpartum depression in men. ... CONCLUSIONS. Postpartum depression is a significant problem in both mothers and fathers in the United States. (Individual and Combined Effects of Postpartum Depression in Mothers and Fathers on Parenting Behavior, James F. Paulson, PhD, Sarah Dauber, PhD, Jenn A. Leiferman, PhD, Pediatrics, August 2006)
F. Cases of depression and anxiety:
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Depression in the DSM-5 |
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Panic Disorder (PD) |
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Postpartum Depression (PPD) |
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Social Phobia (SP) |
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Conclusion:
- The root etiology of PPD is the mother hates the child and/or what changes the child has forced upon the mother's lifestyle and freedom.
- The psychiatry industry has lost all credibility in the mind of rational thinkers in its treatment of Postpartum Depression (PPD).
- Postpartum Depression is a DEPRESSION. Depression doesn't just happen. The mother or father who has been told they have PPD, need to answer a simple question: Why does this baby cause you to be depressed? Keep in mind that people who suffer from PPD are generally selfish narcissists who are also likely to be dishonest. Do you really think these kind of people are going to actually come right out and tell you: "I want "my world" back that I had before the baby came along. Now its no longer about me, its about the "baby's world". This is a lot of work and I am not getting to do what I want any more."
- Some women who suffer from Postpartum Depression may "take off the party shoes" accept the new responsibility but they are very unhappy about it. When they are able to both accept the work and responsibility AND be happy about it, they will instantly be cured of their Postpartum Depression!
- It is a myth that PPD is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, or hormone shifts in the female body normally associated with child birth. Clinical psychiatry has no idea what really causes PPD because it rejects the spiritual sickness of a person who would be depressed over the birth of a child.
- Christians find purpose, hope and beauty in raising children and teaching them the laws of Christ.
By Steve Rudd: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections.
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