What Am I Thinking? by Karen Kleiman

What Am I Thinking? by Karen Kleiman

For many women, having a baby delivers all the profound joy they anticipated and brings happiness beyond description. For women who experience depression after the birth of a baby, this joy can seem elusive. Instead, women with postpartum depression (PD) are often gripped with feelings of deep sadness, confusion, anxiety, and despair, and they are deprived of their anticipated joy in their first precious months with their baby. At some point, the question of having another baby arises. If you ask a woman in the throes of a depression this question, she may say, no. No more children. If you ask a woman who has recovered from postpartum depression if she wants more children, she may say, yes, but I'm scared to go through that again. This book was written to accompany these women on their journey toward a subsequent pregnancy after postpartum depression. What Am I Thinking contains essential information for a woman and her family who plan on having another baby after a previous experience with postpartum depression. As these women know, planning another pregnancy can be a process filled with profound anxiety, indecision, fears, and self-doubt. What if I get depressed again? What if it's worse this next time? What if something terrible happens? What if I'm making a mistake? Filled with self-help strategies, current treatment recommendations, and practical advice, this book offers women the hope, confidence, and support they need to make this journey in spite of their anxiety. With this resource and available knowledge in hand, they are likely to feel more empowered, enabling them to proceed with confidence.

Karen Kleiman is a well-known international maternal mental-health expert who has worked as a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer for over 35 years. Her pioneering work has influenced personal and professional communities within the perinatal mental health community for decades as an advocate and author of several important publications on postpartum depression and anxiety. Karen established The Postpartum Stress Center in 1988 as a therapy and teaching center for pregnant and postpartum depression/anxiety disorders, where she sees both individuals and couples.

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ISBN 13	9781413473476
ISBN 10	1413473474
Title	What Am I Thinking?
Author	Karen Kleiman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Xlibris
Year published	2005-03-11
Number of pages	148
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