Britney Spears and Post-Natal Depression

Filed in archive Cases , Mental Maladies , Studies , Women's Health on February 20, 2008

Poor Britney Spears, right? But for all we know, what she has been doing is not just because of bipolar disorder but could be a lot more to do with post-natal depression (PND).

Post-natal depression is true. The intensity is case-to-case basis. In others perhaps on levels not even detectable. You'll think it is just your hormones. But that doesn't mean you don't have post-natal depression. After all, your hormones have lost to do with this condition.

But the each of us are are a little "crazy" after giving birth. I too have my share of craziness after childbirth.

According to this report, post-natal depression becomes more severe if the child you deliver is a boy.

Giving birth to a boy can lead to higher levels of severe post-natal depression (PND) and reduced quality of life than having a girl, according to new research.

A team of researchers led by Professor Claude de Tychey, from Universite Nancy 2, France, found that just under a third of the 181 women they studied four to eight weeks after delivery had PND.

Nine per cent of the women in the study - carried out in a French community where they didn't face cultural pressures over the sex of their baby - had severe PND and just over three-quarters of those had given birth to boys.

So can we really blame Britney? Remember she has two boys and both are not in her custody. But that doesn't mean she is excused for her behavior. In Britney's crazy world, she should help herself more because the people around her (even her family!) look like they aren't really helping her.

Please, somebody "lock" her up. You know get away for a long time, out of the eyes of the media. The media is worse, she's down already, don't kick her even more. Can the pap'razi just let her be?