How to treat postpartum depression

Treatment for maternal postpartum depression includes psychotherapy and medication.

Psychotherapy is a very important tool. The psychological factors that caused her illness were eliminated through psychological treatment. Was it because she wanted to have a boy but gave birth to a girl? Or do you feel that your husband and mother-in-law are not good to you? Provide more emotional and social support to mothers, and pay more attention and meticulous care to women in the puerperium. Try to adjust the family relationship as much as possible and let her develop good sleeping habits.

If psychotherapy is not effective, drug treatment may be an option. Generally, 5-hydroxytryptamine reuptake inhibitors are used.