[ SECRET POST #2925 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2925 ⌋

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

And this is a big part of why I don't want kids.

With my history, I have a heightened chance of post partum depression, and I don't want to risk being in that state again, especially with a kid around.

[diet_poison]

Interestingly, while my family doesn't have post-partum depression, one reason I'm hesitant to have biological kids is we DO have a family history of depression among women (I got it pretty bad myself a few years ago) and I don't like the idea of having a daughter who has to go through it as well.

I definitely want kids, but adoption is something I've long considered and it's still on the table.

(On a tangential note, I'm really wondering now why post-partum depression is a thing. It seems really destructive, evolutionarily speaking.)

[kallanda_lee]

Well I personally have a history of depression (not PPD, since I never had kids), which is a risk factor.

My mom's cousin had PPD, though, and it was really effing bad. Like, she wanted to murder the child kind of bad. The had to physicall keep her away from him. And as horrible as it sounds, frankly I do not trust it's not something I'd be capable of, under certain circumstances.

As far as I understand, it's a think because pregnancy chances our hormonal balance (and becoming un-pregnant does, too), which can trigger depression. Yeah, it is destructive,evolutionarily speaking - though do keep in mind frequency of depression is also dependent on the society you live in ans even then it's low enough for a species to survive. Keep in mind that giving birth is extremely risky in itself (without modern medicine), so basically it's probably an acceptable loss, evolutionarily seen.

[diet_poison]

eeeeeeeesh. that sounds awful.

Actually after I made that last comment to you I looked up PPD out of curiosity. Turns out there are theories for its existence, though they're pretty bleak (not having the social resources to raise a younger child, for instance, and putting fewer resources into it).