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Bundle of blues / direction and camera, Serena Down.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childbirth--Psychological aspects.
- Childbirth.
- Depression in women.
- Postpartum depression.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (13 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by] The Fanlight Collection, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Women who experience postpartum mood disorders may feel that they are all alone, but postpartum depression actually may affect as many as one in five new mothers. Janice first experienced extreme anxiety attacks about three months after her delivery; the first time was after a family party: 'Out of nowhere I felt like a freight train came through the house and knocked me down.' Monique didn't share her feelings with her family, and felt that it was unacceptable in the black community to seek therapeutic help. 'I was taking everything to the extreme. I thought I was going nuts inside ... I was pretty much being held hostage by my obsessive compulsive need to monitor him.' Thomas recalls that after a difficult birth and recovery his wife Carol grew distant and seemed uninterested in her baby. But neither he nor the professionals they consulted realized that she had become suicidal--she eventually hung herself.
- Participant:
- Featuring Janice Alamillo, Monique Allen, Thomas Soukakos.
- Credits:
- Editor, Serena Down.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Serena Down, ©2005.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 5, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- fn-bund Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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