Depresi dibedakan menjadi dua tipe berdasarkan perjalanan waktu terjadinya depresi. Pertama depresi merupakan istilah dari seseorang yang mengungkapkan perasaan tertekan, sedih, putus asa, perasaan duka cita dan lain sebagainya. Pada saat seseorang mengalami perasaan-perasaan yang tidak menyenangkan maka dengan mudah mereka mengatakan depresi.
Yang kedua, depresi adalah salah satu jenis gangguan mental yang digolongkan menjadi gangguan afektif (gangguan perasaan). Diagnosis depresi ditegakkan melalui DSM IV (diagnostic statistical Manual IV) atau PPDGJ III (Pedoman Penggolongan Diagnosis Gangguan Jiwa III).
Timbul pertanyaan: Apakah depresi adalah suatu gangguan mental? jawabannya : YA. Namun harus diingat bahwa seseorang dapat mengalami depresi fisiologis dan atau depresi yang patologis.
Depresi fisiologis artinya bahwa apabila seseorang sedang mengalami suatu masalah dan tertekan maka akan mengalami depresi sedangkan depresi patologis adalah depresi yang masuk dalam kriteria diagnostik menurut DSM atau PPDGJ seperti tersebut di atas.
Ronny T Wirasto
Ronny3w@ugm.ac.id
Dept of Psychiatry
Medical Faculty Gadjah Mada University
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Perinatal Depression
What is perinatal and postnatal depression?
Depression during pregnancy and depression after pregnancy
Depression is the leading cause of disease related disability among women. In particular, women of childbearing age are at high risk for major depression. Pregnancy and new motherhood may increase the risk of depressive episodes. Depression during the perinatal period can have devastating consequences, not only for the women experiencing it but also for the women’s children and family.
Perinatal and postnatal period is a time of vulnerability to depression rather than a time of universally good mental health for all women. A women is 4 times more likely to become depressed at this time than at any other stage in her life. Depression is a real problem for 10-15% of women, that is at least one in ten. This is different from 'the blues' which is a brief period of lowered, irritable and fluctuating mood that occurs about 3-5 days after giving birth, in 20-50% of women.
All women with babies and young children experience extraordinary tiredness, and a level of exhaustion that has never been experienced before.
Beware to perinatal depression! the effect of it is very dangerous. Depression will make woman not just feeling sad. Decreasing in quality of life is reported in perinatal depression cases.
Ronny T Wirasto
Dept of Psychiatry
Medical School Gadjah Mada University
Depression during pregnancy and depression after pregnancy
Depression is the leading cause of disease related disability among women. In particular, women of childbearing age are at high risk for major depression. Pregnancy and new motherhood may increase the risk of depressive episodes. Depression during the perinatal period can have devastating consequences, not only for the women experiencing it but also for the women’s children and family.
Perinatal and postnatal period is a time of vulnerability to depression rather than a time of universally good mental health for all women. A women is 4 times more likely to become depressed at this time than at any other stage in her life. Depression is a real problem for 10-15% of women, that is at least one in ten. This is different from 'the blues' which is a brief period of lowered, irritable and fluctuating mood that occurs about 3-5 days after giving birth, in 20-50% of women.
All women with babies and young children experience extraordinary tiredness, and a level of exhaustion that has never been experienced before.
Beware to perinatal depression! the effect of it is very dangerous. Depression will make woman not just feeling sad. Decreasing in quality of life is reported in perinatal depression cases.
Ronny T Wirasto
Dept of Psychiatry
Medical School Gadjah Mada University
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