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i had it bad after my second baby. i don't think that you're going to find any similarities between depression and things like breastfeeding and epidurals. it's a chemical thing, outside influances can have an impact, but it all boils down to how your brain processes those hormones. awareness and recognition are your best tools, it cant be prevented. i cant pin down when my depression started but i remember when i knew it was out of control. my husband and friends had been trying to tell me something was "off" with me for a long time. i didn't believe them and i would get defencive and angry and then i would withdrawl from them. my advice is to listen to the people around who love you and care about you. (not your smarmy childless friends or your freakshow MIL; the people who you have always trusted and gone to with problems in the past.) when you're half crazy you're usually the last to know.

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