Two clinical psychologists from the United States, Stephen Gold and Michael Quiñones,...
Postpartum depression is not just sadness or fatigue. It is a serious psychological disorder that can affect a woman after the birth of a child, changing her perception of herself, motherhood, and even her own child. This condition can have a significant impact on both the mother's health and the child's development if left unattended.
Most often, postpartum depression begins with anxious feelings of guilt, burnout, and inner alienation. A woman notices that her perceptions of herself as a mother do not correspond to reality - the ideal image is falling apart like a house of cards. The child also turns out to be "not the same" as she imagined.
This confrontation with reality causes deep disappointment in oneself, doubts about one's ability to be a good mother. This is followed by powerlessness, apathy, loss of interest in the child, and the gradual formation of depression. This psychological background often makes it difficult to establish an emotional bond between mother and baby, which can have long-term consequences for the child's mental development.
After giving birth, a woman's body undergoes significant hormonal changes. They not only affect mood, but also reduce the effectiveness of traditional antidepressants. And waiting for several weeks for the drug to take effect when life demands immediate decisions is often simply impossible.
In addition, many women worry that the medication could harm their babies. And these fears are not unfounded: the breakdown products of antidepressants can pass into breast milk, causing infants to have sleep, appetite, and behavioral problems. This only deepens the mother's anxiety, creating a vicious circle.
In this vulnerable period, a woman needs something more than just "waiting for it to happen". And that is why ketamine infusion therapy looks like a promising solution.
This approach has a number of advantages:
Fast action. Results are visible after the first treatment - without waiting for weeks.
Safety for the baby. Ketamine is not passed into breast milk, so breastfeeding can be continued without risk.
Outpatient treatment. The woman is not confined to the hospital - the infusion lasts several hours, after which she can return home.
Proven effectiveness. Ketamine is used daily in medical facilities around the world in much higher doses. In the United States, it has been used in the treatment of postpartum depression since 2015, with marked success.
But no therapy is complete without psychotherapeutic support. Ketamine helps to stabilize the condition, but real healing occurs when a woman gets the opportunity to work through the deeper causes - fears, traumas, idealized expectations of motherhood.
In combination with mindful psychotherapy, ketamine opens the way to real, not imaginary, motherhood - where there is room for weakness, strength, and a new, honest version of yourself.
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