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To: sweetliberty

Oh, I'm sorry,. I didn't realize you were a Doctor. Tell me, in what subject did you receive your degree?


64 posted on 11/23/2004 7:58:14 PM PST by jess35
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To: jess35
It doesn't require a medical degree to read.
" Depression is twice as common in women as it is in men, with its peak incidence during the primary reproductive years. The link between reproductive status and depressive illness is further evidenced by the high frequency of depression during the premenstrual phase, the perimenopausal period, and the immediate postpartum period."
"Using data from more than 35,000 deliveries with sequential 90-day intervals over a 2-year period preceding and following the delivery, Kendell and colleagues clearly demonstrate a sevenfold increase in the risk of psychiatric hospitalization in the first 3 months after delivery. In this study, the risk of psychosis was 22 times higher than the prepregnancy rate, and the calculated relative risk (RR) of childbirth for the development of psychosis was 16. However, 87% of the admissions were for affective disorders, with the majority of diagnoses being major depression."
"At the other end of the spectrum is the truly devastating puerperal psychosis. A comparatively rare disease, it complicates only 0.1% to 0.2% of deliveries--but this is 12 to 14.5 times the prenatal incidence of psychosis.6,9 Symptoms generally present within the first 4 weeks postpartum, when the risk of hospitalization is 22 times greater, but can manifest up to 90 days after delivery."

Women's Primary Health Grand Rounds at the University of Michigan; Timothy R.B. Johnson, MD, and Barbara Apgar, MD

While a nearly infintesimal percentage of the latter group can manifest symptoms as late as 18-24 months following delivery, apparently, postpartum depression has now been redefined as a convenient excuse for women to murder abort their children at any age when they might become inconvenient.

67 posted on 11/24/2004 2:30:52 AM PST by sweetliberty (Proud member of the Pajama Posse!)
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