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I learned to be funny because my mother was chronically depressed. From infancy onward — through a mixture of survival instinct, emotional alchemy, and a craving for approval — my role was to ...

A new Yale study shows how the timing of depression in mothers and fathers affects mental health in their adult children.

Postpartum depression affects about 1 in 8 women in the U.S. within the first year after giving birth. It isn’t just the ...

Postpartum depression--a household term since actress Brooke Shields went public in 2005 about her struggle with it--is indeed serious. But depression that begins before or during pregnancy is often ...

When Pauline Aketch* had her first baby, she could not believe all the love one could feel for another human. She had been married two years before she and her husband welcomed their first baby.

Different types of depression affect the body in different ways. Atypical, energy-related depression raises the risk of diabetes, while melancholic depression increases the likelihood of heart disease ...

You’ve got the baby you always wanted, but for some reason, you feel low ...

Kalki Koechlin welcomed her daughter Sappho during the initial stages of the Covid lockdown, which added on to other ...

Tess Karanja shared how postpartum depression affected her after childbirth and explained how support from fellow mums and ...