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Postpartum depression is much lower in places where mothers get a lot of sunshine, live among numerous family and friends, eat whole diets, walk a lot, and don'

Postpartum depression is much lower in places where mothers get a lot of sunshine, live among numerous family and friends, eat whole diets, walk a lot, and don't suddenly go from rat-race identity-capturing careers to soloing a screaming infant inside all day. I'm not saying PPD is non-existent in those societies, just that in western societies like the US I'm more surprised when new mothers don't get PPD than I am when they do.

tptacek 3y ago
This may be the opposite of true: metastudies show lower incidence of PPD in developed countries, and further the incidence of perinatal suicide is higher in developing and "non-western" countries.
bob_theslob646 3y ago
>Postpartum depression is much lower in places where mothers get a lot of sunshine, live among numerous family and friends, eat whole diets, walk a lot, and don't suddenly go from rat-race identity-capturing careers to soloing a screaming infant inside all day. Do you have a source for this?