Postpartum depression

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Postpartum depression: when the joy of motherhood is overshadowed by darkness

Postpartum depression is not just sadness or exhaustion. It is a serious psychological disorder that can affect a woman after giving birth, changing her perception of herself, motherhood, and even her own child. This condition can significantly affect both the mother's health and the child's development if left untreated.

When reality differs from expectations

Postpartum depression often begins with an anxious feeling of guilt, burnout, and inner alienation. The woman notices that her ideas about herself as a mother do not correspond to reality - the ideal image collapses like a house of cards. The child also turns out to be “not like” she imagined.

This confrontation with reality causes deep disappointment in oneself, doubts about one's own ability to be a good mother. This is followed by powerlessness, apathy, loss of interest in the child - and the gradual formation of a depressive state. Such a psychological background often makes it difficult to establish an emotional connection between mother and infant, which can have long-term consequences for the child's mental development.

Why do antidepressants often not help?

After giving birth, a woman's body undergoes significant hormonal changes. Not only do they affect mood, they also reduce the effectiveness of traditional antidepressants. And waiting several weeks for the drug to take effect when life requires immediate decisions is often simply impossible.

In addition, many women worry that the medication may harm the baby. And these fears are not unfounded: the breakdown products of antidepressants can enter breast milk, causing sleep, appetite, and behavior disorders in infants. This only deepens the mother's anxiety, creating a vicious circle.

Ketamine — a new approach to treating postpartum depression

During this vulnerable period, a woman needs more than just “waiting for it to happen.” And that’s why ketamine infusion therapy looks like a promising solution.

This approach has a number of advantages:

Fast action. Results are visible after the first treatments - without waiting for weeks.
Safety for the baby. Ketamine is not passed through breast milk, so breastfeeding can be continued without risk.
Outpatient treatment. The woman is not confined to the hospital walls — the infusion lasts several hours, after which she can return home.
Proven efficacy. Ketamine is used daily in medical settings around the world in much higher doses. In the United States, it has been used to treat postpartum depression since 2015, with notable success.

A comprehensive approach is the key to true recovery

But no therapy is complete without psychotherapeutic support. Ketamine helps stabilize the condition, but true healing occurs when a woman is given the opportunity to work through the deeper causes — fears, traumas, idealized expectations of motherhood.

Combined with mindful psychotherapy, ketamine opens the way to real, not imaginary, motherhood—where there is room for both weakness and strength and a new, honest version of yourself.

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