What You Eat Can Affect How You Feel
Bella Breakdown For a long time, vegetables were my enemy. I did not like to eat them because, well, I am ashamed to admit that I was picky. For me, meat, cheese, and carbs were the staples of my diet (yes, not unlike a high school male teenager… don’t judge me). Fortunately, I am rather athletic and I was able to make up for my lack of good diet with regular exercise. But last year, everything changed for me when I started to have dramatic mood swings and feel more sad and anxious than I had felt in a...
Postpartum Depression: Not Just the Baby Blues
Bella Breakdown You’ve waited nine months, and your new baby finally has arrived. But a few weeks later, instead of feeling joy and contentment, you experience anxiety, sadness, episodes of crying and guilt. You may be suffering from postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is defined as mood symptoms or anxiety that presents in women from 3 weeks to up to a year after having your baby. Postpartum depression is different than the “baby blues”, which only last about 2 weeks. Postpartum depression is considered normal, happens to a lot of women and can have a varying degree of severity. In...
