Relationship Between Diabetes And Depression - 2017 Words

Intro Throughout high school, I worked in an antenatal clinic that provided services to a number of underprivileged women during and after their pregnancies. Many women suffered from severe depression and often times social workers had to called to prevent the women from committing suicide. Common among the women, who generally suffered from a wide variety of afflictions, was diabetes. In this paper I chose to explore the relationship between diabetes and depression in pregnant women. PPD Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mild-to- severe mood disorder that develops in 10-20% of mothers in the U.S. annually, following birth of their baby. Women often experience anxiety, hopelessness, sadness, apathy towards newborn, mood swings, and crying spells, which can last three months to a year. These women have difficulty bonding with the baby, are withdrawn from friends and family, are irritable and have thoughts of harming self or baby or both. If untreated PPD may persist for many months. PPD affects the health of both mother and child, interfering with the development of mother-child relationships. Children of depressed mothers have been shown to develop significant emotional cognitive and developmental delays. PPD is more commonly seen in teenage mothers and mothers of lower socio economic status (Kozhimannil K.B, et al.,2009), something I can attest to from my work in the clinic. PPD is now considered the â€Å"most significant obstetrical complication† and elevated to â€Å"globalShow MoreRelatedCarper, M., Traeger, L., Gonzalez, J., Wexler, D., Psaros,1150 Words   |  5 PagesThe differential associations of depression and diabetes distress with quality of life domains in type 2 diabetes. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37, 501-510. http://ezproxy.deakin.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=ccmAN=103944893site=ehost-livescope=site The article by Carper et al. 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