Lee Cohen
Lee Cohen
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Clinical lore has held for decades that pregnancy protected women from mood disorders. What drove this study was a divergence between that belief and what many of us were seeing clinically, that many women who stopped using antidepressants during pregnancy appeared to be relapsing.
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It's important that patients not assume that the hormones of pregnancy are going to protect them from the types of problems they've had with mood previously.
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We found that patients who stopped their antidepressant during pregnancy were five times more likely to have a return of depressive symptoms than those patients who had decided to continue (them) during pregnancy.