Postpartum Depression: A Literary Review

Abstract

Postpartum depression is a pathology that affects part of the puerperal female population. Early diagnosis enables rapid and complete improvement of the patient. The main symptoms indicative of depression is crying, lack of energy, feeling of worthlessness and sadness. The damage caused by the disease in the child development of the newborn. The treatment adopted is individualized, since it varies according to the degree of the pathology, capable of approaching from light therapeutic conducts, such as behavioral therapy, to administering medication to the puerperal woman.