Postpartum depression is the most common type of female psychiatric disorder, and is a series of physical, emotional, and psychological changes brought about by changes in a woman’s sex hormones, social role, and psychology after childbirth. Typically, postpartum depression occurs within 6 weeks after delivery and can last throughout the puerperium, and in some cases, even until young children go to school. The incidence of postpartum depression ranges from 15% to 30%. Postpartum depression usually develops within 6 weeks and can recover on its own in 3-6 months, but it can also last 1 to 2 years in severe cases and has a recurrence rate of 20% to 30% in another pregnancy.
1, supportive psychotherapy: supportive psychotherapy is also known as supportive therapy. It refers to the implementation of health care process, health care workers to the patient’s psychological state reasonable use of persuasion, encouragement, sympathy, comfort, support, as well as understanding and reassurance, can effectively eliminate the patient’s bad mood, so that they are in the best psychological state to accept treatment, so as to ensure the smooth progress of treatment, so that the early recovery.
2, interpersonal psychotherapy: this depression psychotherapy method is mainly used to treat the acute onset of depression in adults, aiming to alleviate depressive symptoms and improve some social problems of depressed patients. The common interpersonal problems of depressed patients include four aspects: abnormal sadness reaction, interpersonal conflict, difficulty in role transformation and lack of interpersonal communication.
3, music therapy: one of the most popular psychological treatment methods for depression is none other than music therapy. The limbic system and brainstem reticular formation play a major role in regulating the internal organs and somatic functions of the body, and music can have a direct or indirect effect on these neural structures.
4, focus shift: If you do face a serious unpleasant life event after giving birth, or even a problem that is difficult to solve, don’t let your energy always focus on the bad event. The more you think about unpleasant things the worse your mood will be, the worse your mood is the easier it is to take the bull by the horns, the lower your mood will be, and you will be caught in a vicious circle of emotions. So to properly transfer their attention, is a transfer method, the attention will be shifted to some pleasant things, focus on their preferences, not only thinking about the transfer, but also physically involved in the pleasant activities within their reach.
5, behavior adjustment method: given that women are not suitable for strenuous exercise after childbirth, but some appropriate relaxation activities are very necessary, such as deep breathing, walking, meditation, meditation and calm images, listening to soothing and beautiful music, etc.
6, confide in the catharsis method: find friends or relatives to communicate, to tell their hearts, cry a lot, it does not matter, to give vent to depression.