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Whitney we are back and Whitney you're used to hey Whitney questions so and our

listeners love that but what we're doing today is similar but it's most asked

questions about post-parn depression.

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This is for our listeners if you're new here.

Please refer back to last May series we did which was what is so we did a whole series of

paranatal mood anxiety disorders ranging from postpartan depression, anxiety, we talked about pregnancy and psychosis and kind of did a high level conversational approach about that and gave more specific examples.

So please refer back to that if we're new to you.

So you can kind of get some background knowledge here.

These questions come, of course, from our preview lines, Moms.

And there is also a search engine marketing tool that literally tells what women are googling.

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What causes post-parthen depression with me?

We have a lot of different things they go into it. Let me just say that. So number one, if you've ever had a history of depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, bipolar disorder. If you've got any history of a mental illness before, you are at

higher risk for postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety. The reason is your genetics are already at

greater risk for it. So let's say you've never been diagnosed with anything but your mom and dad have or you've got a grandparent that has or a sibling that has. Well, chances are your DNA is just higher risk for mental illness and especially when we look at postpart and we look at that

hormone crash that we go through where progestrine just bottoms out on us that is really

going to be a huge culprit. So first thing, genetics DNA. That's a big thing. If you've got family history of it, you yourself have a history of something, you're going to be higher risk.

The other part of it is that hormone crash that we mentioned,

progesterone.

So every mom goes through it with delivery.

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