Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim Kim, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening. Today on Ask Dr. Kim, we are talking about the question, how can I help my

wife who is struggling with postpartum depression?

A lot of women struggle with postpartum depression.

So I do want to give this quick caveat before we get started that we're going to share some

really hard stuff in this episode.

It's probably not appropriate.

It's definitely not appropriate for little ears.

So we're going to be talking about things like self-harm.

And so also,

if this is a trigger for you, I really encourage you to turn off the podcast. No, seriously,

why is it still running? You should turn it off. Pray and really ask, I would pray before listening

to this podcast if you struggle with self-harm or if this is a trigger for you. And I would ask a trusted mentor to listen to the

podcast first and let you know whether or not you should tune in or not. So that's a little caveat

that we'll start with at the beginning. But Dr. Kim, just to kick things off, what is PPD, what is

postpartum depression? Let's kind of explain that because giving some context for it will really help

the spouse here to understand what the wife

is maybe going through. Sure. I think it became a category because there was enough consistency

of seeing women that either during pregnancy, after pregnancy, after the first year of pregnancy,

would have feelings of anxiousness or sadness or depression or panic or frustration or just feeling hopeless. And

statistically, about 20% of the women, I think, have that. It kind of falls under the overall

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