Perinatal Mental Health Disorders

Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) disorders can appear anytime during pregnancy, post-loss, and the post-partum period. PMH disorders include depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar mood disorders, and psychosis.

Screenings are key to help identify women/birth people at risk or experiencing PMADs. Fathers are also at risk for PMADs.

Every Year, more than 400,000 infants are born to mothers who are depressed, which makes perinatal depression the most under diagnosed obstetric complication in America.

As many as 1 in 7 moms (1 in 10 dads) experience symptoms of depression and anxiety during the postpartum period. Anyone can develop Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) during pregnancy and the first year after delivery.

Common Symptoms:

• Feeling sad or depressed

• Feeling irritable or angry

• Difficulty bonding with the baby

• Feeling anxious or panicky

• Having problems eating or sleeping

• Having upsetting thoughts that you can’t get out of your mind

• Feeling as if you are “out of control”

• Feel as though you should have never become a parent

• Worried that you might hurt your baby or yourself

We have therapists trained in Perinatal Mental Health. We Can Help!