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Antidepressant usage is universal throughout Europe. It makes more sense to treat postpartum depression, not less, because it's so likely to have a straightforward chemical cause. That's why there is an oral treatment specifically targeting it.
*pure penicillin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocosh and they are not the only ones to do something like this.
I wonder why the American natives got so much sicker from European diseases than the Europeans did from the local native disease. It's almost like cities are petri dishes.
Spoiler: it's what the adjacent comment said, the Americas didn't have the factors for plagues.
Turkeys, llamas, ducks, mink, ostrich, etc.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals
Anyway it sounds like you're referring to Francis Galton's old take on the topic which doesn't really hold up in many ways https://galton.org/essays/1860-1869/galton-1865-domesticatio...
You haven't convinced me that there were no domesticable animals in the new world, or that that was the major factor.
It also doesn't explain why new world people already had a need penicillin formulations (earlier comment).
But if you are right, it sounds like the trade-offs that come with domestication may not be worth it except as accidental biological warfare. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/
Also, the rats that carried the black plague were not domesticable. Don't you think open sewers in the streets contributed to disease a bit..
And yes, the black plague is zoonotic, as I said. And yes, cities do contribute, because packing a lot of people together give plagues fuel. Plagues are almost always zoonotic, because any disease that kills all its hosts also dies. Plagues usually have a reservoir in animals, mutates to jump to humans and kills them by accident, really.
[0] And guinea pigs, I guess, but you can't build an empire on overgrown squeaky toys.
We'll be first in line for getting the pill if she needs it.
I’m in a week between family staying with me right now and I had to pull from savings to get a night nanny every other night to even have a chance for sleep.
Make a plan for help, don’t be afraid to cash in on help you’ve given your friends and family, and get treatment early.
edit: I’m a US Marine. I’m not scared of sleep deprivation, hard work, or suffering. How single moms do this without PPD, let alone with, while holding a job is something I can’t fathom. I thought I was tough. Incorrect.
We got a young puppy a year back now which seemed like good practice - with the lack of sleep, constant attention, constant pooping/peeing. But yea, a baby's absolutely going to be another level's worth of difficult.
* sleep deprivation: take turns taking care of the baby and let the mom sleep whenever she can, naps during the day, when the baby is napping, when the baby is with you, etc; getting as much sleep is <<super important>> for the mom
* moral support: no matter how much things suck, you're in this together; talk to the mom and ideally, make fun of the literally shitty situation :-)
* as mentioned by others, get more help if you can; no shame in doing it, you said you were a military man, wouldn't you want to greatly outnumber "the enemy" (the baby)? :-p
* take the longest leave possible, don't save PTO; you're probably not going anywhere interesting this year, use that time to offer support during this super stressful period.
FYI, statistically the pressure goes down at about 3 months old and again at 6 months old.
But worth it. I was just reading my 2 year old a book before bed and I can confirm that it gets better. They are a lot of fun.
Until like 1950s modern medicine was never "needed" but was "suddenly" needed. Last ~80 years is blip of blip merely a moment in human history yet few now would think medicine is not "needed". What humans "need" is tremendously more complicated than you imply.
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.
Do you have a source for this?
certain bipolar and epilepsy drugs would disagree with that statement.
this is (probably) why benzos and z-drugs have qualitative differences for example--they act on different neurons as they have varying affinities to GABAa subtypes
I don't think this is actually true.