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  • Alanis Morissette Details Postpartum Depression On "Stop The Stigma"

    Alanis Morissette Details Postpartum Depression On "Stop The Stigma"

    “This time around, it’s less depression, it’s more anxiety and a little more of the compulsive, obsessive thoughts,” the “You Oughta Know” singer shared.

    With each birth of her three children, Alanis Morissette has shed light on postpartum depression (PPD) by sharing her personal experience with the “baby blues”—which can be more serious and longer lasting in some women.

    The singer-songwriter sat down with CBS This Morning’s Mireya Villarreal for the show’s Stop the Stigma segment on mental health challenges.

    Postpartum depression is a mood disorder suffered by some women after childbirth. Symptoms include extreme sadness, anxiety and exhaustion which affect the new mother’s ability to function.

    “This time around, it’s less depression, it’s more anxiety and a little more of the compulsive, obsessive thoughts,” the “You Oughta Know” singer shared. She would be consumed by “images that are horrifying, just a lot of times about safety about the people you love, your loved ones, your children,” she said. But having gone through it twice before the birth of her third child, Winter Mercy Morissette-Treadway, in August, Morissette had the presence of mind to stop and recognize the symptoms of PPD.

    Getting Help Instead Of Powering Through On Her Own

    Her first instinct was to overcome it on her own, but she was advised otherwise. “My survival strategy is to just push through,” she told Villarreal. “And then I spoke with a professional who knew all about postpartum depression, and I asked her, does this go away if I just white-knuckle through it? She said, no, it actually gets worse.”

    With the help of medication and the support of loved ones, Morissette has faced PPD with each birth, as she described in a recent essay.

    The singer detailed her most recent experience with PPD in a blog post published to her website in early October.

    “I have been here before. I know there is another side,” she wrote. “I saw how things got richer after I came through it the last two times.” With the birth of Winter, she was better prepared for the impending “postpartum tar-drenched trenches” that came with sleep deprivation, hormones, physical pain, isolation, anxiety, marriage and “all kinds of PTSD triggers,” she wrote.

    Stigma-Free Perception Is The Goal

    Sharing every detail of this experience is important, she explained. “There’s something about chronicling the experience in real time…If the goal is stigma-free perception of any mental illness or mental health conversation, understanding and giving the details of what it really looks like from the inside is important,” she told Villarreal.

    Morissette said that PPD would not deter her from doing it all over again. “Because I had experienced the other side of postpartum depression… I know that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. I’d be willing to go through it again. I know that sounds a little insane,” she said.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Alanis Morissette Describes Third Bout With Postpartum Depression

    Alanis Morissette Describes Third Bout With Postpartum Depression

    “I have been here before. I know there is another side. And the other side is greater than my PPD-riddled-temporarily-adjusted-brain could have ever imagined.”

    Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette is in the midst of her third bout with postpartum depression—but she was better prepared for it this time around, she revealed in a recent blog post.

    “I wasn’t sure if I would have postpartum depression/anxiety this time around,” said Morissette, who gave birth to her third child, Winter Mercy Morissette-Treadway, on August 8.

    Morissette had previously shared that she struggled with depression after the births of her son Ever Imre in 2010 and daughter Onyx Solace in 2016.

    “I have been here before. I know there is another side. And the other side is greater than my PPD-riddled-temporarily-adjusted-brain could have ever imagined,” she wrote in her October 6 post on her website. “I saw how things got richer after I came through it the last two times.”

    Learning From Past Experiences

    This time around, the “Ironic” singer was better prepared for the impending “postpartum tar-drenched trenches” that came with sleep deprivation, hormones, physical pain, isolation, anxiety, marriage and “all kinds of PTSD triggers,” she wrote.

    “There is so much more support this time. I knew better so I set it up to win as much as I could beforehand,” she wrote. “Support. Food. Friends. Sun. Bio-identical hormones and SSRIs at the ready… PPD is still a sneaky monkey with a machete—working its way through my psyche and body and days and thoughts and blood work levels.”

    Morissette described the anticipation of PPD ahead of Winter’s birth in a previous interview with SELF from June. “I have said to my friends, I want you to not necessarily go by the words I’m saying and as best as I can, I’ll try to be honest, but I can’t personally rely on the degree of honesty if I reference the last two experiences.”

    History Of Depression

    She revealed in the same interview that she had a history of depression, so while PPD was no joke, it was a somewhat familiar experience for her.

    “For me I would just wake up and feel like I was covered in tar and it wasn’t the first time I’d experienced depression so I just thought ‘Oh well, this feels familiar, I’m depressed, I think.’ And then simultaneously, my personal history of depression where it was so normalized for me to be in the quicksand, as I call it, or in the tar. It does feel like tar, like everything feels heavy.”

    Morissette added that her nature of “over-giving, over-serving, over-do-ing, over-over-ing”—i.e. her “work addiction”—set an unsustainable standard for her after each birth.

    She also noted, “This culture is not set up to honor women properly after birth,” seemingly referencing the lack of priority given to allowing women a healthy period of recovery and bonding after giving birth in the United States.

    “I see it changing, which is so heartening,” she added, “but the general way is bereft of the honoring and tenderness and attunement and village-ness that postpartum deeply warrants.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • "Let's Talk About Cats" Podcast Shines Light On Mental Support From Feline Friends

    "Let's Talk About Cats" Podcast Shines Light On Mental Support From Feline Friends

    The show uses people’s often hilarious shared experience as cat owners as a way to help them talk about “the toughest and darkest parts of our lives.”

    With recent studies showing that cats do form connections with humans, a new podcast aims to highlight how cats can help us bond with not only others, but with ourselves, and tap into those personal and even painful places that need support and self-care.

    “Let’s Talk About Cats,” which recently launched its second season, features conversations between its host, writer/producer and “noted cat lady” Mary Phillips-Sandy, and a diverse array of cat owners, including Daily Show correspondent Dulce Sloan and actor/author Alexander Silber, about how their cats have impacted their lives and emotional well-being. 

    It’s a subject that Phillips-Sandy knows intimately: she weathered debilitating postpartum depression with the help of her own cat, Grendel, who is often the subject of conversation on the podcast.

    Phillips-Sandy, who grew up living with both cats and dogs, initially conceived the idea for the podcast in 2014 after finding that talking about cats could be a “great equalizer” when meeting people for the first time.

    “Anyone who has a cat knows that moment when you’re at a party, and someone says, ‘My cat did the most hilarious thing,’ and then everyone has their phones out and showing pictures of their cats,” she tells The Fix. “You feel this sense of camaraderie with people you’ve never met before, and more importantly, that you might have nothing else in common with.”

    “I Was Hanging On By A Thread”

    That phenomenon led her to consider the idea of a program in which cats might serve as a means to “get to know someone in a very gentle, personal way that could then open the door to all sorts of things.” But then, as Phillips-Sandy puts it, “I lost my mind.”

    Phillips-Sandy suffered from a debilitating case of depression, both before and after the birth of her son, that left her, on some days, unable to get out of bed, which in turn led to her leaving her job and cutting herself off from friends, while also caring for her son.

    Adding further injury to the experience was the death of a cat that she had owned for many years. Its passing was traumatic, but also allowed her a moment to reflect on their shared experiences and emotions. “There was a chance to felt connected to and loved by him,” she recalls.

    Grendel Comes Home

    In the midst of this personal chaos, Phillips-Sandy rescued a feral kitten that she named Grendel. The cat – which is a frequent topic of conversation on the podcast – provided her with support and companionship at a crucial time. “I was hanging on by a thread,” she says.

    So when Phillips-Sandy returned to the idea of the podcast in 2018, she and producing partner Lizzie Jacobs began to revise the podcast from a “straight-up comedy sort of thing,” as she called it, to using the shared experience of cat ownership to talk about “the toughest and darkest parts of our lives, whether that’s grief or loss or addiction or mental illness, and how we get through them and keep living through them. I don’t know if I’d wanted to do that had I not been through that time.”

    Phillips-Sandy knows that for some people, the idea of receiving emotional support from a cat flies in the face of accepted notions about the animals as aloof and distant. But, she notes, cats do provide unconditional love, just as dogs are often credited as doing, although in a different way.

    “There is something about the love you get from a cat because of the sense of having earned it,” she explains. “I know my cat loves me unconditionally, and I know I’ve earned it, but I also know she accepts me for who I am [because] they accept who they are so unconditionally.” 

    Equally important are the moments of mindfulness that a cat can provide simply through its physical presence.

    “Every morning, she’ll come and sit by me, and it’s a little moment for me to start my day by petting her and thinking about nothing at all,” she says. “It’s probably one of the only moments in the day in which my mind is not racing in some way or nothing is happening. And that makes it easier when I don’t want to get out of bed. It gives you that little boost to say, ‘You know what? I can deal with it.’”

    Positive Response

    Response to “Cats” has been positive, and some listeners have reached out to Phillips-Sandy to let her know how it’s impacted their lives.

    “What people tell us is that we are talking about a relationship with a cat in a way that they’ve always felt,” she says. “It’s a comedy, and there’s a lot that’s funny, but being able to talk about heavy stuff, people have said that it helps them feel understood.”

    The second season of “Let’s Talk About Cats” can be heard via Apple, Stitcher, Google, Spotify, and streamed via the show’s website.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Alanis Morissette Talks Postpartum Depression, Miscarriage

    Alanis Morissette Talks Postpartum Depression, Miscarriage

    “Not singularly relying on myself to diagnose myself is key, because the first time around I waited,” the singer said about postpartum depression.

    Singer Alanis Morissette is planning ahead for how to deal with postpartum depression when she welcomes her third child in a few months.

    “Not singularly relying on myself to diagnose myself is key, because the first time around I waited,” she said in an interview with SELF.

    Morissette and her husband have an eight-year-old and an almost three-year-old. After both pregnancies, Morissette said that she felt depressed. Because of her history with the condition, she immediately recognized what was happening.

    “For me I would just wake up and feel like I was covered in tar and it wasn’t the first time I’d experienced depression so I just thought ‘Oh, well, this feels familiar, I’m depressed, I think,’” Morissette said. “And then simultaneously, my personal history of depression where it was so normalized for me to be in the quicksand, as I call it, or in the tar. It does feel like tar, like everything feels heavy.”

    Morissette thought because she had overcome depression before she could do so again. In the past, doing service through her songs and connecting with audience members helped her heal. However, that didn’t work during her postpartum episodes.

    “I would just think, ‘Oh I’m just going to go out into the world and serve and then I’m going to feel better,’ but that didn’t do it. And then I had my various forms of self-medicating [that also didn’t help]. So, creativity’s not doing it, tequila’s not doing it…and I even sang about it,” Morissette said.

    Eventually, she reached out to a doctor for help. This time, she is planning ahead, asking friends and loved ones to keep an eye on her and connect her with help when they are concerned, even if she insists that she is ok.

    “I have said to my friends, I want you to not necessarily go by the words I’m saying and as best as I can, I’ll try to be honest, but I can’t personally rely on the degree of honesty if I reference the last two experiences,” she said.

    During the interview, Morissette also talked about miscarriages and her struggle to get pregnant.

    “I […] felt so much grief and fear,” she wrote in a follow-up email after her interview. “I chased and prayed for pregnancy and learned so much about my body and biochemistry and immunity and gynecology through the process. It was a torturous learning and loss-filled and persevering process.”

    However, she also learned about rebuilding her health in the process.

    “When I […] chased my health in a different way, from multiple angles—[including, among other things] extensive consistent blood work monitoring to trauma recovery work to multiple doctor and midwife appointments to many tests and surgeries and investigations, things shifted,” she wrote.

    Overall, being pregnant and parenting has been an intense experience, Morissette said.

    “It’s this whole chemistry of emotions. Hormones and chemicals that are just coursing through your body. It [can] be triggering, or flashbacking, or re-traumatizing,” she explained.

    Through it, she has learned to do what she needs to do to take care of herself. .

    “Extroverts restore, in theory, with people, and introverts restore alone—so for me, one of the biggest questions with me having two or three kids, was where is that solitude? How and where?” she said. “For me, it’s just about getting really creative, and maybe it’s a hotel room here or bathroom stall here. Making sure there’s doors that go out behind our house so there’s a little area with a little gazebo here…whatever I need to do to create this. It’s not anyone else’s job to be responsible for my temperament. Maybe pin-drop silence right now is the key. Or it might be hey, being pure presence with my daughter right now is the key. Or right now crying is the key. Fucking binge-watching a TV show is key.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Dad Details Personal Struggle With Postpartum Depression

    Dad Details Personal Struggle With Postpartum Depression

    Paternal post-natal depression affects around 10% of fathers. 

    Postpartum depression is commonly thought of as a women’s issue but a number of scientific studies have revealed that men can also be affected by the disorder. On recent episode of Today, one parent has come forward about his struggles with postpartum depression after his wife gave birth to their son.

    As Zavo Gabriel told Today, his wife Annie went through a difficult birth of their child. She was in labor for 36-hours, and the doctor had to use the forceps in the delivery.

    “It was really difficult for me seeing the look on her face when she was pushing the hardest,” he explains. “She was screaming and making these noises, which sounded like someone pushing for her life.”

    Once Gabriel’s son was born, he started having “multiple panic attacks a day,” and he had to distance himself from the family for some time.

    “I was a total wreck,” he confessed. “Annie’s mom had to step in and be the co-parent for those first few weeks.”

    According to research, about 10% of fathers can suffer from postpartum depression. As a source at Northwestern University explains, “The estimate is higher than depression in the normal population. A father’s depression has a direct link to the child. It definitely impacts the whole family’s health.”

    And the same factors that can cause postpartum depression in women can affect men as well, whether it’s a history of mental illness, more stress in your personal life, sleep deprivation, or changes in your hormonal chemistry. Men can experience a drop in their testosterone levels, which can lead to depression once they become fathers.

    As one source told Today, postpartum depression in men “shouldn’t be belittled. We need to change the culture of what masculinity is and be more inclusive about why fathers’ experiences matter.” Dads don’t get screened for postpartum depression as much as women, and they’re often afraid of the stigma surrounding the condition, which often prevents them from getting the help they need.

    Gabriel did finally seek help, completing six weeks of outpatient therapy, and he’s still attending therapy while raising his son. “All I wanted was to get back to Annie and start this life as a family,” he says.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Chrissy Teigen Details Postpartum Depression Struggle

    Chrissy Teigen Details Postpartum Depression Struggle

    “I thought it was very natural to be in this low, low point and I just assumed that was motherhood and there was no other way around it.”

    May is Women’s Health Month, and model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen used her platform to speak to The Today Show about her past struggle with postpartum depression.

    Now the mother of two, Teigen experienced an intense change in personality and mood after the birth of her baby girl, Luna.

    “Since it happened with Luna, it happened with my first one, I just didn’t know that there was any other way to feel,” Teigen said according to USA Today. “I thought it was very natural to be in this low, low point and I just assumed that was motherhood and there was no other way around it.”

    Though she was feeling exhausted, it was her low self-esteem, negative thoughts and general feeling of sadness that concerned her husband, musician John Legend, and her doctor. It was only when they pointed out those behavioral changes that Teigen realized something was wrong.

    Women can start having hormonal-based blues as early as during a pregnancy, and some women even turn to self-medicating while pregnant to relieve the depression or anxiety they experience.

    The American Psychiatric Association says that while “baby blues” are normal (up to 70% of new mothers experience this temporary change in mood) and include irritability, crying, and exhaustion for a few weeks, postpartum depression requires treatment and support.

    Symptoms of postpartum depression include extreme fatigue, enduring hopeless or helpless emotions, difficulty concentrating and confusion, crying without reason, lack of bonding or interest in the baby, or severe anxiety around the baby, lack of emotion, feelings of worthlessness around mothering, or fear of harming self or baby.

    Women experiencing these ongoing symptoms can report them to the baby’s pediatrician or their own doctor and ask for assistance. Options for recovery include certain medications, group or individual therapy, and a secure support network.

    “I didn’t really realize it until I’d written an article with Glamour Magazine and spoken out about it how many women are going through this,” Teigen said. “I think more than anything I’ve ever done, more women on the street come up to me and talk about that article than anything else.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • New Postpartum Depression Drug May Be Hard To Access

    New Postpartum Depression Drug May Be Hard To Access

    The new medication currently costs $34,000 per treatment.

    Last week, the FDA approved the first-ever drug for postpartum depression, but critics says that access to the drug will continue to be a challenge. 

    Writing in a New York Times opinion piece, Elisa Albert, a doula, and Jennifer Block, a journalist who covers women’s health, point out problems with the new treatment. 

    “Let’s be real about who will have access to Zulresso: women with very good insurance, the ability to advocate for themselves, and the flexibility to leave home for three days for treatment,” they write. 

    The treatment—which provides fast postpartum depression relief by mimicking a hormone in the brain—costs $34,000 per treatment. Because it is only approved for intravenous delivery right now, women who get the treatment must spend three days in the hospital, likely away from their young infant.

    These factors mean that Zulresso will likely not be a treatment for the women who need it most, said Florida midwife and childbirth advocate Jennie Joseph.  

    “If you’re actually needy, in deep postpartum depression,” she said, you’re “not going to be able to get yourself to the hospital. Where are you a few days after having a baby? You’re in your house being ignored.”

    Albert and Block point out that Zulresso reduced depression symptoms by two-thirds, but a placebo treatment reduced symptoms by half. This suggests that women benefit from increased care and attention in the postpartum period, something that can’t simply be substituted with medication. 

    “If insurers are willing to throw down tens of thousands of dollars for a mother’s mental health, we can think of some alternatives that might have a better cost-benefit ratio: Six months paid leave. A live-in doula and a private sleep-training coach. Weekly massages and pelvic-floor rehab sessions,” Albert and Block write. “In the meantime, we fear that Zulresso is just a stopgap, and yet another instance of pathologizing a very sane reaction to our very insane culture.”

    Postpartum depression is the most common complication from childbirth, affecting 1 in 9 women. Women in lower socioeconomic brackets face an even higher risk, but may have trouble accessing Zulresso, especially if Medicaid delays on covering the treatment. 

    “Those who have the highest rates of postpartum depression and who would benefit the most, I fear it will be limited access to them,” University of Michigan professor of psychiatry and OB/GYN, Dr. Maria Muzik, told NPR. 

    Options like delivering the treatment in a mother-baby unit could help alleviate some of the barriers to care, she said. 

    “Over the next six months, I think [there] will be big developments.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • New Meds May Provide Quick Relief From Postpartum Depression

    New Meds May Provide Quick Relief From Postpartum Depression

    The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the new medication some time in March.

    After giving birth to her son in 2017, Marie McCausland began experiencing feelings of exhaustion and guilt, and started suffering from panic attacks. 

    At the urging of her husband, McCausland sought help for postpartum depression—something that 1 in 9 women in the United States are diagnosed with, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

    McCausland was encouraged to seek help from a psychiatrist and antidepressants, which are the typical treatments for postpartum depression. However, the issue with these treatments is that they can take time to become effective. 

    But soon, a faster form of treatment may be an option. Market Watch reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve a new medication called brexanolone sometime in March. Brexanolone was created by Sage Therapeutics and would be marketed as Zulresso.

    If approved, it would become the first “drug therapy approved to specifically treat postpartum depression,” Market Watch reported. 

    Brexanolone is administered via intravenous infusion over a 60-hour period, according to Market Watch, and typically takes effect within days instead of weeks. The medication works by increasing allopregnanolone, a progesterone metabolite that affects mood regulation and increases in the body when a woman is pregnant, but decreases quickly after birth. 

    Market Watch reports that studies involving the medication have been promising. In one, researchers examined 246 women with varying degrees of postpartum depression and administered brexanolone or a placebo. To determine effectiveness, they used the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression. 

    Researchers found that after 60 hours, scores fell more in the group that had taken brexanolone, indicating that it had worked for some women.

    “This is unlike anything we currently have available,” Samantha Meltzer-Brody, the lead author of the study, told Market Watch. “We now [have] an opportunity to treat women quickly, within days.”

    Brexanolone may not be an obvious choice for everyone. Some women experienced side effects like dizziness, fatigue and headaches. 

    Then, there’s the price. According to Sage Chief Business Officer Michael Cloonan, one treatment of brexanolone could run $20,000 to $35,000. Cloonan says the company is currently navigating coverage options. 

    There’s also the time commitment, as women opting for the treatment can expect to spend two to three days in the hospital. 

    “We think this is a novel mechanism that’s not been explored before,” Sage Chief Executive Jeff Jonas tells Market Watch. “Zulresso is, in many ways, just the tip of the spear.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • The Push To Provide Pregnant Women With Mental Health Services

    The Push To Provide Pregnant Women With Mental Health Services

    New recommendations for expanded mental health care access could impact up to 15% of new moms.

    A government task force is recommending that primary care providers provide counseling services, or referrals to counselors, to all pregnant and postpartum women who are at high risk of developing depression. The move could increase access to counseling for these women, since insurance providers will now be required to cover counseling for pregnant and postpartum women. 

    The recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force could affect up to 15% of new moms. People at high risk of developing depression before or after giving birth include young moms, low-income women, and women with a past history of depression. For these people, early screening and intervention via counseling can be very effective. 

    “I am very happy to see anything related to prevention, whether it’s mental health generally or perinatal depression specifically. If we can prevent problems from occurring, not only do we do a great service to humans, but [the health care system] saves a great deal of money,” Jeff Temple, a University of Texas psychologist in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, told Time. 

    However, Temple added that there are still barriers to access to mental health care, especially for at-risk women. These include an already understaffed and overburdened mental health system. 

    “If we need to see 15% of perinatal women, there’s absolutely no way that we have the ability to do that. We need to put more money and effort into training more psychologists and counselors,” he said. 

    Ideally, doctors who are taking care of women during pregnancy would integrate mental health services and counseling into their practices, said Temple. 

    “If these women are screened and they’re recommended to someone [for counseling] and it’s kind of a cold handoff, very few will follow up with it. But if one implication of this is that OB/GYN departments start to incorporate counselors and psychologists within their services, then we’ll see a huge benefit. If we did that, I am 100% positive we would see declines in perinatal depression.”

    Temple believes this will happen in the future, as the country grows more aware about the importance of mental health.

    “I think we’re starting to understand the importance of mental health as a society, and the importance of prevention,” he said. “The future is definitely going to be psychologists within primary care departments.”

    American Counseling Association president Simone Lambert said that focusing on mothers’ mental health could improve outcomes for women and babies. Being proactive is the best way to do that, Lambert said. 

    “The benefits of increased maternal and infant wellness and decreased stigma to seek mental health assistance would likely lead to less of a toll on our healthcare system than when mental health concerns are unaddressed.” 

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • A Medication For Postpartum Depression?

    A Medication For Postpartum Depression?

    Currently, there are no FDA-approved drugs specifically to treat postpartum depression.

    The FDA is considering the approval of a new medication that would treat severe postpartum depression.

    While most women experience “baby blues” after childbirth, some experience more severe, longer-lasting symptoms, known as postpartum depression (PPD).

    Currently there are no FDA-approved drugs specifically to treat PPD. And data on the efficacy of existing antidepressants on PPD is limited.

    Brexanolone (brand name Zulresso) may change that, Fortune reports.

    How does brexanolone differ from existing antidepressants?

    Brexanolone mimics the functioning of the human hormone known as allopregnanolone. Allopregnanolone increases in a woman’s body during pregnancy and peaks during the third trimester. After delivery, however, levels of allopregnanolone fall abruptly, the FDA explains.

    Brexanolone, an injection, works to return women to pre-delivery levels of allopregnanolone. 

    Postpartum depression is considered a life-threatening condition because of the risk of suicide, the FDA says. “It also has profound negative effects on the maternal-infant bond and later infant development.”

    According to the FDA, suicide is the most common cause of maternal death after childbirth in the developed world. Approximately 12% of births are affected by PPD in the United States.

    Despite how many women experience PPD, some say it is not talked about enough.

    “I think people need to talk about it more because it’s almost like the fourth trimester, it’s part of the pregnancy,” said tennis champ Serena Williams, while sharing her own experience with PPD.

    “How can I feel this way when everything is so great? I’ve had a hard time coming to terms with that, and I hesitated to even talk about this,” said TV personality Chrissy Teigen.

    “I couldn’t figure out why I was so unhappy. I blamed it on being tired and possibly growing out of the role: ‘Maybe I’m just not a goofy person anymore. Maybe I’m just supposed to be a mom,’” the Lip Sync Battle host said.

    Symptoms of postpartum depression can arise within the first few weeks after giving birth. Some may begin earlier (during pregnancy) or later (up to a year after birth), according to Mayo Clinic.

    An FDA advisory committee voted 18-0 that Zulresso is effective in treating PPD—however, they mentioned “some reservations about the safety of home infusion,” Seeking Alpha reports.

    A decision by the FDA is expected by December 19.

    View the original article at thefix.com