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This past April, only a few weeks postpartum, my son s pediatrician handed me a print out of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). The screening tool, developed in Scotland in 1987, is 10 questions long and used around the world to detect a variety of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) such as postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety.
The form s prompts range from I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things to The thought of harming myself has occurred to me. Each answer is assigned a numerical value. The higher the score, the more likely the respondent is suffering from a PMAD.