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With Dr. Jana Rundle · Clinical Psychologist
Everyone else has moved on and you're crying in the parking garage. Depression and anxiety after miscarriage are real: a hormonal drop like the one after birth, plus grief for a baby no one else met. Here's why it's under-recognized, what it can look like, and where to get support.
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You love your baby and you don't recognize yourself. There's a word for that, and it isn't a diagnosis. What matrescence is, why it's compared to adolescence, how to tell it apart from postpartum depression, and what helps.
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A hollow, homesick dread that hits as your milk lets down and is gone two minutes later. It has a name: dysphoric milk ejection reflex. What D-MER is, how it differs from postpartum depression and breastfeeding aversion, what's known about why it happens, and what helps.
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When plans with friends feel like too much after a baby, shrink them instead of canceling. Dr. Jana Rundle, quoted in TIME, on come-as-you-are hangouts and letting go of the perfect house.
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A clear, clinical comparison of postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety, including where they overlap, how intrusive thoughts fit in, and how treatment differs.
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Your body did something extraordinary. So why do you feel like a stranger in it? The truth about postpartum body image that nobody talks about honestly.
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