{"id":39179,"date":"2021-11-23T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/23\/help-for-postnatal-depression-psychosis-india-mental-health"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T06:00:03","slug":"i-got-help-for-postnatal-depression-that-saved-me-most-women-in-india-do-not-priyali-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39179","title":{"rendered":"I got help for postnatal depression that saved me. Most women in India do not | Priyali Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With up to one in five new mothers suffering depression or psychosis, experts say the need for help is \u2018overwhelming\u2019 India<\/p>\n<p>A month after giving birth, Divya tried to suffocate her new daughter with a pillow. \u201cThere were moments when I loved my baby; at other times I would try and suffocate her to death,\u201d says the 26-year-old from the southern Indian state of Kerala.<\/p>\n<p>She sought help from women\u2019s organisations and the women\u2019s police station, staffed by female officers, in her town. But Divya was told that the safest place for a child was with her mother.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/nov\/23\/help-for-postnatal-depression-psychosis-india-mental-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With up to one in five new mothers suffering depression or psychosis, experts say the need for help is \u2018overwhelming\u2019 IndiaA month after giving birth, Divya tried to suffocate her new daughter with a pillow. \u201cThere were moments when I loved my baby; at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,566,346,62,78,744,2362,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-life-and-style","category-mental-health","category-psychiatry","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39180,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39179\/revisions\/39180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}