Prenatal depression in recent years, the emergence of a new mental illness during pregnancy, are pregnant for her husband had some new or unreasonable expectations, when the heart needs are not being met, it produces a variety of negative emotions.

Part of the mothers appear more severe prenatal depression, such as: depression, loss of appetite, extreme insecurity. Bulletin boards due to changes in some physical or psychological, and her husband had some new or unreasonable expectations, when the inner needs are not met, it will produce a variety of negative emotions. This attitude contrasts with the usual mental state is relatively large prenatal depression.

Treatment

Many treatment methods, commonly used medications, physical therapy, and psychological therapy. But for maternal depression, due to the side effects of drugs, try to avoid the use of medication.

Drug treatment

Is still the tricyclic antidepressants as first-line drug therapy for depression. The second-generation atypical antidepressants as a second-line drugs. Various tricyclic antidepressants comparable efficacy, clinical depression and sedation according to strength, side effects and patient tolerance to choose. Imipramine and desipramine sedation weak for psychomotor retardation in depressed patients. Amitriptyline, doxepin strong sedative effect, applicable to anxiety, agitation and insomnia. But tricyclics anticholinergic and cardiovascular side effects, should pay attention to the application. The second generation of many types of atypical antidepressants, selective 5-HT reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, and its wider application, and side effects, better safety performance, use of long-term maintenance treatment. Treatment of bipolar depression and unipolar depression the same, but two-phase patients with antidepressants may turn hypomania, it is often the antidepressants and lithium carbonate collaboration applications. For accompanied by hallucinations, delusions depression, often need combined antipsychotics such as perphenazine, sulpiride and so on.

Physical Therapy

By increasing the secretion of 5-HT, and to promote the release of norepinephrine, enhance the excitability of nerve cell activity, and thus help ease the effect of individual depression. By promoting the secretion of a sedative endorphins, enabling patients to maintain a relaxed and comfortable state of mind conducive to better alleviate the negative, depressed emotional state before. Also by improving the improvement of the patient's brain waves and physiological indicators, play to improve the role of depression in patients with somatic symptoms. Currently, the physical therapy abroad more mature approach is transcranial micro-current stimulation therapy (CES). There are alpha-stim, fisherwallace, health pax and so on. At present, only the introduction of the alpha-stim scs (Chinese: Ansi fixed)

Electroconvulsive therapy

Patients with depression should prevent self-injury and suicide, suicidal ideation strong effect for those applications get immediate electrical shock, use of drugs to be in stable condition after consolidation.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy role in the treatment of this disease is very important, but usually with medication, physical therapy combined method.

Hazard prenatal depression

Due to excessive anxiety in pregnant women 4-10 weeks of pregnancy mood, there is a baby's lips may cause distortion, but also some of cleft lip and cleft palate. The spirit of the sudden change in mental state of pregnant women, and if some of the shock and sadness or fear or some other reason which led to excessive tension, which will be balanced relationship between the brain's cortex and internal organs will be offset, which will lead to disorders of the circulatory system functions, resulting in early peeling placenta, and even cause fetal death.