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H.R. 20, The Melanie Blocker Stokes Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act (6 comments ↓ | 8 wiki edits)
H.R. 20 would provide for research on, and services for individuals with, postpartum depression and psychosis.
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Andrea
January 9, 2009, 2:53pm (report abuse)No one is advocating for a woman to get medication during pregnancy in this bill! This is a serious MENTAL illness affecting a woman’s whole life, and her family. Before anyone can knock the MOTHERS ACT do some research on PPD, PPS, and PMD. So many mothers are afraid to speak up about this horrible illness is because people don’t feel this is a disease! HAVE YOU EVER SPOKEN TO WOMEN WHO PHYSICALLY COULD NOT PICK UP HER NEWBORN BABY! Until you have, you shouldn’t have a stance on this issue! The bill is designed to CREATE AWARENESS for women of childbearing age, and everyone else about a very serious illness that affects 75-80 of women who have children. There are organizations out there that take up a minimal about of funding from the federal government and teach women about this serious public health issue. This Act funds them to teach PPD is a disease! JC do some research. Children are DYING and WOMEN ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE BECAUSE OF THIS DISEASE! We need Awareness!
Steve
February 8, 2009, 11:51am (report abuse)How many of those children are dying and how many women are committing suicide AFTER they have been drugged. I agree that it is a "disease" as you're probably defining it -- a biochemical change happens in the body, and the woman is experiencing life differently, often in a negative way. I understand. The concern is what MANDATES there will be on mental screening and drugging with pharmaceuticals KNOWN to raise the risk of suicide, homicide, depression, and more. The concern is where this will help some people at the expense of people's freedom. If they can balance those to, then I am happy to have screening and drugs AVAILABLE to those who choose them. And then you have the debate over whether gov't should handle every last crisis in people's lives. But I'll leave that to another place.
Mickey
March 31, 2009, 12:43pm (report abuse)Medicine is looking every which way but at what CHANGES after the baby is born. And that's pretty simple -- the woman's body no longer makes large amounts of progesterone, so the woman goes through withdrawal symptoms.
This becomes pretty obvious when you notice that some women are only happy when they're pregnant, or are on a progesterone-type birth control pill. D'oh!!
Seems to me this would be mighty easy to treat with existing hormone-replacement therapy, without throwing a bunch of tax dollars at it.
Burdick
(logged in user) May 12, 2009, 5:50pm (report abuse)Cambridge psychiatric M.D.s - Joeseph Biederman and Janet Wozniak, estabish for psychiatrists nationwide, that "bipolar" is such a "disease," that can be diagnosed in toddlers. They then prescribe "medicine," in the form of depakote, clonipine, risperdal, they do not, you understand, prescribe, antioxidants, essential fats, zinc, B-vitamins to prevent incipient "Bipolar" later. No real science or concern involved.
The developing fetus needs for neural development, zinc and essential fats, etc. DHA is transfered through the placenta. If the mother lacks dietary essential fats she donates her own to the child, this can cause depression and psychosis.
SSRIs cause birth defects, suicidal and homicidal ideation. The "depression" they propose to "diagnose" is another faux DSM "disorder". Unknown cause, diagnosed by word test, further research underway, need to educate people, get more treated, and prevent stigma.
ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/06/boston-globe-portrait-of-one-of.html2007
Burdick
(logged in user) June 11, 2009, 8:04pm (report abuse)I ran into Eva Edelman author of the 2009 book, Natural Healing for Bipolar in June. I told her about this Mothers Act. She focused on the importance of vitamin B-6 for making Serotonin and regulating hormones. Looking this up -
"Vitamin B6... is critical for hormone balance and the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps regulate mood and digestion,"
from the 2002 book, Mother Nurture: A Mother's Guide
www.nurturemom.com/Web_store/Html/refers2.PDF
Joseph R Hibbeln, M.D.
Seafood consumption, the DHA content of mothers' milk and prevalence rates of postpartum depression: a cross-national, ecological analysis.
"Mothers selectively transfer docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) to their fetuses to support optimal neurological development during pregnancy. Without sufficient dietary intake, mothers become depleted of DHA and may increase their risk of suffering major depressive symptoms in the postpartum period."
FATS FOR MENTAL HEALTH www.ect.org/selfhelp/fats.html
J
August 6, 2009, 3:23pm (report abuse)Just another reason to throw our money away. Isn't that what these bottom sucker elected poeple do? Why not collect money for in-grown toe nails? They can be pretty annoying don't you think?
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