Authors: Joyce A. Venis, Suzanne McCloskey
Postpartum depression is the most common complication women experience after childbirth - nearly 700, 000 new moms suffer from it each year. Yet this serious mood disorder, characterized by sadness, anxiety, feelings of
hopelessness and guilt, insomnia, and thoughts of harming the baby or oneself, continues to be widely
misunderstood and frequently misdiagnosed. In Postpartum Depression Demystified, renowned PPD authority Joyce Venis and Suzanne McCloskey, both PPD sufferers themselves, turn their combined experience and expertise into an insightful and supportive guide for everyone living with and seeking to understand this condition. Venis and McCloskey cover topics including: the
Joyce Venis is a woman who personally experienced the agony of postpartum depression - and has since then invested her considerable talents and energies in
reaching out to others who are suffering.
Men, this book is a must read for you as well. This will give you the insight to a better understanding of what it is that our "Moms" are going through. Moms aren't the only ones who suffer, we do to.