Untreated postpartum depression
From the ‘Baby Blues’ to psychosis: Severe maternity effects.
|2020.12.12
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“I cried all the time, asking ‘Am I okay? I have mental problems.'”
“The gynecologist has never mentioned or discussed this topic with me,”
Mirjeta saysCurrently, I also cover neonatology patients; there is a need for more psychologists.”
Brikena Krasniqi -Hoti, a psychologist at the UCCK's Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic“Of the 10 mothers who attended one of the classes, three probably had information about postpartum depression,”
Laberie Çarreti, Action for Mothers and Children.“It is not ethical at all to charge up to 50 euros for a therapy session [which includes psychological counseling]."
Ilir Havolli, Head of the Kosovo Association of Psychologists."I waited for nine months to experience that moment, but I was humiliated."
Edita says"I have to be careful of others so that they don’t know I’m depressed because it’s shameful."
"One of the patients told me that the 'sessions' with the imam were abusive, because she was in a bad mood, she cried and he told her that she had become a mother and that she should take care of the baby."
Shukrie Statovci, psychiatrist
Besarta Breznica
Besarta Breznica works as a research assistant at the Kosovo Women’s Network and is an independent researcher and journalist. The issues that concern her include human rights and particularly the lives of women and minority communities in Kosovo. She finished her bachelor’s degree in media at UBT college and in sociology at the University of Prishtina and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in the department of sociology at the University of Prishtina. Besarta is a K2.0 Human Rights Journalism Fellowship program fellow (2020 cycle).
This story was originally written in Albanian.