While doing my daily required reading of articles, blog posts, tweets and other assorted media across the web about postpartum depression and related illnesses, I came across a question a while back posted on Mamapedia by a mom with postpartum anxiety. She was looking for advice on natural treatments because she didn’t want to take the Prozac prescribed by her doctor.
She received 22 answers by other mothers, many warning vehemently against taking any medication. These are some of the things she was told by the moms:
For many people, postpartum anxiety is caused by a deficiency of omega-3s and a lack of coping mechanisms. Read the book Feeling Good and take omega-3s.
Acupuncture works.
If he is suggesting serotonin imbalance, then speak to your herbologist again. Don’t go on medication! You have to take too much time to wean off. There are many things that will help the levels naturally
If you don’t want to take Prozac, then ask for something less dramatic. (something less dramatic? huh?)
I highly recommend contacting Dr. ____ who is truly an amazing Chiropractor and Nutritionist and would definitely be able to help you naturally.
Please don’t settle for drugs that will be only partially successful in masking your issue and give you the side-effects galore. There are so many safe and effective homeopathic remedies.
I don’t know the mom who posed the question. I don’t know if her anxiety is mild or severe. I don’t know whether she has a history of mental illness. I don’t know if she’s had suicidal thoughts. I don’t know if she’s taken antidepressant medication before and it didn’t work or caused unacceptable side effects for her. I don’t know if she’s tried therapy. All I know is that she has received advice from people with no medical training, some of whom have a bias against medication but claim to know what will work to fix her postpartum anxiety.
