Postpartum Depression Articles

Quite often a person will experience a time in their lives when they will have periods of depression. It is very normal to have these feelings, especially when you have had a death in the family, or you are getting much older and you feel you have no useful reason to...

Depression begins for all different reasons and so many of those cases are related to a hormone imbalance in the body.  This is most evident with postpartum depression. Our bodies produce hormones in every cell in the body, in minute amounts, but vital to the overall...

‘Hormone’ comes from a Greek word that means “to spur on”. A hormone is a type of chemical released by one or many cells. It can affect cells in other parts of the body. These are like little messengers of the endocrine glands, (Pineal, Pituitary, Hypothalamus,...

Postpartum depression is no laughing matter, as the woman affected cannot control the moods due largely in part from the body changes after giving birth. Changes in hormone levels can cause this reaction and the mother will experience postpartum depression to varying...