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Postpartum Depression 101: Everything You Need to Know About the Crazy Common Affliction

Illustration by Jaume Vilardell for Yahoo Style Jen, now 41, was taking a quick, much-needed manicure break from new motherhood when she had her first postpartum anxiety attack. She’d given birth to her son less than two months before, and though she’d since noticed some unsavory changes—“not sleeping, crying a lot”—she initially wrote them off as little more than the baby blues. It wasn’t until she was settled into the manicurist’s chair that the magnitude of her new responsibilities—her new li