FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression

Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by ksenzee on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:14PM (#37057605)

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.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by rrrrrk on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:12PM (#37058295)

Well, tell me if you please, what is this research that was done by physician? Is there a known physical source of said depression? Or we know that there is a certain hormone that secrets in ones body to cause this depression?

> Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.

A very dangerous attitude if one is concerned with a human body. You don't have any idea what is going on and you going to throw in something with side effects of hitting a poor woman with a brick in a face.

Just be a man, be there and help her to get thru it. Birth is not a newest fab of 2023. It was around since the dawn of man (citation required). And for hundreds of thousands of years one would not use drugs. Suddenly we are going to change it. I beg you.

It's like re-writing a perfectly working golang server in NextJS just cause you love microservices.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by gmerc on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:40PM (#37058448)

Only a man could write this.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by saagarjha on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:02AM (#37058560)

It is generally rare that Hacker News comments make me physically cringe. This is, unfortunately, one of those times.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by ksenzee on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @11:52AM (#37064537)

The fact that I’m a woman (who has given birth and had PPD, twice) gives it that extra je ne sais quoi.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by saagarjha on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:56PM (#37069497)

Have you considered just being a man?

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by moomoo11 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:32PM (#37058406)

Ew 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.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by ekianjo on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:16PM (#37058318)

> Anything we can do to treat it, even partially, is worth doing.

And this is exactly with this line of thinking that you get everyone including kids on antidepressant

i wonder how other countries cope without all that shit.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by tptacek on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:42PM (#37058459)

They cope by accepting higher rates of perinatal suicide.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by moomoo11 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:33PM (#37058412)

BUt tHe sCIenCe bRo

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by duncan-donuts on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:22AM (#37058655)

My 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.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by j45 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:55PM (#37058531)

Thank you. Well said.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by topato on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:51AM (#37058828)

I 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

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