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If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered
by ksenzee 3y ago
If you are not a researcher, or a physician, or some other expert, and if you have not given birth yourself, please don’t throw out this kind of ill-considered opinion. Post-partum depression (and anxiety for that matter) is more severe than just the effects of sleep deprivation and lack of support. Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.
- rrrrrk 3y ago[flagged]
- moomoo11 3y agoEw why would someone even if they love micro services go from go to node? Just seems dumb. Write the micro services in Go lol. But yeah I agree to some point. We medicate far too fast and easily these days. Half these drugs have insane side effects, and yet people shit on shrooms. At least I won’t die from blood clots or some random shit.
- gmerc 3y agoOnly a man could write this.
- saagarjha 3y agoIt is generally rare that Hacker News comments make me physically cringe. This is, unfortunately, one of those times.
- ekianjo 3y ago[flagged]
- moomoo11 3y ago[flagged]
- tptacek 3y agoThey cope by accepting higher rates of perinatal suicide.
- duncan-donuts 3y agoMy wife couldn’t sleep after giving birth to our second kid and it spiraled quickly into full blown psychosis. My wife still can’t sleep right nearly 10 years later. There’s no shame in taking antidepressants. Some of us have brains that don’t work quite right and we should have more options than “cope” or self terminate.
- j45 3y agoThank you. Well said.
- topato 3y agoI don't think he was trying to downplay the severity of postpartum symptoms.... In reality, it does take months for oral psychiatric drugs to cause a state of homeostasis in a patient, so perhaps, while it's another option in an arsenal, there are more serious healthcare industry related issues that need fixing as well