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Health Tip: Risk Factors for Postpartum Depression
They make depression after pregnancy more likely
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(HealthDay News) -- Postpartum depression is a mental illness that affects women after pregnancy.
The National Women's Health Information Center offers this list of risk factors for postpartum depression:
- Having a personal or family history of depression or another mental illness.
- Having insufficient support from friends and family.
- Feeling negative or anxious about pregnancy.
- Having problems in a relationship, or financial difficulties.
- Dealing with stressful life events.
- Being young during pregnancy.
- Having a substance abuse problem.
-- Diana Kohnle
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Last updated 2/12/2010
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