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It is a doctors job to inform pregnant women of the changes their bodies will go through in the stages of pregnancy; changes such as tearfulness, irritability, hypochondriasis, sleeplessness, impairment of concentration, isolation and headache. (Andrea Yates) Women are given time off work and are instructed to do minimal physical activities, they do this in the US so that the woman’s body may recover. Recovery takes a long time and there is an 80% chance that post pregnant woman will become diagnosed with depression, which is when a person feels sad or down for a long period of time. But are these women getting all the help they need to recover psychologically from such changes? A woman can feel extremely overwhelmed with a newborn child to look after. Some begin to have threatening thoughts of harming themselves or their child, and in some cases they actually follow through such as Dena Schlosser who severed her 11 month old daughter’s arms. She was claimed to have had Page 2 postpartum depression but why wasn’t she separated from the child before it had gotten that bad, nor given the help to avoid such actions? I’m going to discuss the arguments between postpartum depression and that it should be taken more seriously in our today’s society for it is having heavy effects on mothers like Dena Schlosser. She was found Not Guilty and tried for Insanity, should she have been found Guilty for murder? Psychological Dysfunction Post partum depression can have long term effects on the mother, her family and even her own health. It also affects the relationship between the mother and infant in a negative way. In turn, the emotional and cognitive development of the child is affected. (Adrian I. Rosenfield). When People thi... ... middle of paper ... ...ood change called “postpartum blues” within the first few days to weeks after giving birth.” Many of the citizens in America don’t treat depression as a serious illness or disease. We medicate with medications like Zoloft and Paxil, which when taken off can lead people to have withdrawal affects of aggression and irritability. (Doyle) Dena Schlosser killed her baby of 10 months and Andrea Yates killed 5 children, one being only 6 months old which is in the time range that symptoms of postpartum depression start to appear. Were they tried fairly? They were both on anti-depression medications and both had proof of knowing what they had done admitting the charges. Will we ever know what to think causes these symptoms? Or is it the scapegoat parents choose to get rid of the problem, ‘the problem’ being their newborn child? This Argument can be discussed for many years.

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