Too Worried By Baby Can Cause Obsessive Disorder

Each  new mothers must be feeling  anxious fear can not properly  care for her baby. But do not overdo it,  because it was too anxious  and worry can lead to obsessive.

Excessive worry can evolve into an obsession that is wrong. The experts call this condition with postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD postpartum). This could encourage women to take extreme measures to prevent the fear becomes real.

One example is not to stop washing baby clothes because they want to prevent the germs that the baby is sick, or refuse to hold her baby for fear of him falling.

"It's normal for parents to try to protect and keep her children to stay safe. But what happens to mothers with OCD is vigilance and concern that is too high," said Kiara Timpano from the University of Miami in Florida, said in a university, Friday (09/09/2011).

Timpano said that this condition also makes women depressed by his own mind and try to control it through a ritualistic or repetitive behaviors. The symptoms can interfere with life and dangerous to both mother and child.

Until now not known what the trigger, but the women who had experienced an anxiety disorder or OCD before birth are more susceptible to postpartum OCD. This is because having a baby is a huge life transition and is accompanied by physiological and hormonal changes that can contribute.

Still there are some people who mistakenly between postpartum OCD with postpartum psychosis (a severe form of depression where mothers have delusions). The most obvious difference was seen in women with postpartum psychosis there is the risk of hurting her baby while she was a mother with postpartum OCD small risk of hurting the baby.