Are You Suffering From Perinatal Depression? Here Is What You Should Know

Unfortunately, like everything that has a strong social embedded identity, there is a risk of feeling extreme pressure to meet expectations and of developing a mental health concern. Let us put aside, for a brief moment, the sexist idea that child rearing is primarily a womans God-given designation; let us not even embark down the path of the similarly sexist ideology that a woman has to be the primary caregiver; or the fact that many families in India still prefer having a male child versus a female one. Lets instead focus the fact that today in the 21st century, we as a society are failing our mothers by not providing them with a space to talk about their mental health, their concerns, their experiences. You may also like: A therapist’s guide to getting over the tough period after baby is bornIn a primarily patriarchal society, where community and society are often the foundations of family values and outlooks, we look at the concept of motherhood as a taken-for-granted virtue, and we look at women who struggle as abnormal or simply bad mothers. This post is only available to members. To read on, please sign up for the annual subscription of {products}. You will like what you see!

Unfortunately, like everything that has a strong social embedded identity, there is a risk of feeling extreme pressure to meet expectations and of developing a mental health concern. Let us put aside, for a brief moment, the sexist idea that child rearing is primarily a womans God-given designation; let us not even embark down the path of the similarly sexist ideology that a woman has to be the primary caregiver; or the fact that many families in India still prefer having a male child versus a female one. Lets instead focus the fact that today in the 21st century, we as a society are failing our mothers by not providing them with a space to talk about their mental health, their concerns, their experiences. You may also like: A therapist's guide to getting over the tough period after baby is bornIn a primarily patriarchal society, where community and society are often the foundations of family values and outlooks, we look at the concept of motherhood as a taken-for-granted virtue, and we look at women who struggle as abnormal or simply bad mothers.

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