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Postnatal Illness / Depression
UK sources of information and / or support
Patient UK
Has an information leaflet on Postnatal Depression.
Antenatal and postnatal mental health
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Antenatal and postnatal mental health.
Post Natal Depression: A Self help guide
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.
Medicine Guide for Post Natal Depression
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.
Association for Post-Natal Illness
Provide support to mothers suffering from post-natal illness.
Meet A Mum Association
Aims to provide friendship and support to all mothers and mothers-to-be, especially those feeling lonely or isolated after the birth of a baby or moving to a new area. By attending a local MAMA group, mums become part of a network of women wanting to make new friends and support each other.
Veritee's Post Natal Illness Web Site
A self help & mutual support site for Sufferers and Survivors of PostNatal Illness and Post Natal Depression. As well as support for womenwith PNI/PND the forum offers mutual support for partners, husbands andhelpers of women with PNI.The site was set up by a survivor of PNI an her husband.
Understanding Post Natal Depression
The website also carries details of a 40 minute video, produced Liz Wise (a specialist PND counsellor) to answer the need for up to date information on this debilitating condition.The video not only carries detailed information from a psychiatrist, a health visitor and a GP, but also a section from recovered parents themselves explaining their own journeys through this condition.
Mental Health Foundation
Provide good information about post-natal depression.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Provide a range of information leaflets about post-natal mental health.
Mother's Voice
Mother's Voice exists to support mothers, friends and family members who are affected by any form of Perinatal Illness. This covers Antenatal Depression, Postnatal Depression, Puerperal Psychosis, Birth Trauma and pregnancy related anxiety.
Postnatal depression
Information from BUPA.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
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- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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