info for partner!

[Meg_s]

Hi there, after my first I had very severe ppd that lasted over a year. My 2nd is over a year old now, and my partner is actually carrying around a lot of anger and resentment toward me because of the ppd. Not because of how I acted toward him, but because I was so useless and he feels that I was just being lazy and purposefully not being involved in life. He was very very unsupportive, in any way and has remained completely disconnected and uninvolved. Where can I find some information to explain to him that I wasn't like that on purpose? What actually happens.. how the brain doesn't function?

[mom0810]

Hi,

Postpartum for Dummies and Beyond the Blues both have sections for partners to read, and both books are excellent.

[goodygumdrops]

Maybe you should bring him to speak with your doctor. If you would comfortable, I'm sure your psychiatrist would be able to explain that ppd is an illness.

I just read in a book that many are in denial that ppd is an actual illness and a way of creating awareness is to compare symptoms to an actual common illness, like bronchitis. If you had a bronchitis and had a cough, you would be in denial if you were wondering were the cough was coming from. Well, ppd is illness with actual symptoms, like ruminating & intrusive thoughts, etc. Does that make any sense?

GL