Women who suffer from perinatal depression―depression during pregnancy and up to one year after delivery―have a higher risk of death by both natural and unnatural causes
The study shows that women who experience depression before, during or after pregnancy are more at risk of death from natural and unnatural causes. | Health
According to the study, women who develop perinatal depression, which is to say depression during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, are generally twice as likely to die of natural or, in most cases, unnatural causes. They are six times more likely to commit than women without this form of depression.