> Anyone can answer!
:)
> rejected the idea of leaving a baby to cry until the baby gives up on the idea of crying to gain attention.
Yes. Me too. A newly graduated psychiatrist friend coined Ferberize as
she struggled w/ implementation. She opted for Ferber for convenience (not a trivial decision) because she was starting work.
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> It seems hard to me to believe that an experience as common as postpartum depression would have persisted in an evolutionary sense if it was an unmitigated negative and harmful experience for offspring. The general thought is that it brought community support for the mother. But perhaps it
also narrows the mother's focus to the smaller world of mother and child, and away from the world at large and its distractions. I'm not of course saying it's
a good thing. It's nothing I would wish on anyone, having experienced it myself.
Interesting. A very self-actualuzed (imo)
friend described being raised by her depressed mom as 'cozy'. My own early experience was like being cocooned w/
my son. I worry about the effects of depression in my case more from a social modeling perspective (if that is the right word) as isolating for him--he's a fair part extrovert.
However, depression wasn't deep enough to keep me from, ummm, you know, like smiling (just maybe less frequently and truly joyously).
And here we come back to reward centers lighting up. Truly joyous. Quietly joyous. I hate to think of my son missing that (quite foreign to me) early experience.
How many paths diverge before a single person? As the neurons proliferate and
are pruned....
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