Medscape October 29, 2024
After Funda Bachini, MD, a psychiatrist in Phoenix, Arizona, gave birth to her third child in 2017, she found herself irritable, struggling to sleep, and up at 3 AM writing emails to family members. Something was wrong, she told them. She wasn’t herself. “I was crying a lot, and I was anxious. I had intrusive thoughts of dropping my daughter or something horrible happening.”
It wasn’t until 1 year postpartum that it dawned on her: Although Bachini treats depression and anxiety professionally, she had been explaining her own symptoms away as side effects of a stressful job and having three kids under age 5. In reality, she was experiencing postpartum depression (PPD) and postpartum anxiety (PPA), some of the...
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