Counseling Psychologist and ADR Practitioner, Counselor Perfect has stressed that postpartum depression should be treated as a serious health issue, not dismissed as weakness or lack of effort.
Speaking in a recent interview on Joy Prime’s Let’s Talk, she explained that hormonal changes after childbirth can trigger lasting sadness, fear, and disconnection, even from a woman’s own baby.
“Postpartum depression has nothing to do with being lazy,” she said firmly.
She argued that recognizing it as a medical condition is the first step towards proper care, noting that many mothers suffer in silence because families and partners mistake their withdrawal for unwillingness.
Counselor Perfect warned that without medical intervention and support, recovery is unlikely.
“You can’t expect a woman to function normally when her hormones and emotions have shifted so drastically,” she noted.
Partner support, she added, is crucial, but must be practical, saying that one area where couples often clash is intimacy.
“The sex needs to be postponed for a while,” she advised.
In her view, pressing for closeness too soon undermines healing.
She explained that “a woman who is not okay up there cannot emotionally engage”, meaning emotional stability has to come first.
Counselor Perfect is against the idea that mothers should “snap out of it.”
Postpartum depression, she describes, is not a choice or a character flaw, stating that medical treatment, whether therapy, medication, or both combined with a partner’s understanding, gives women the best chance to recover.
“We need to stop labeling this as laziness and start treating it as a health condition,” she stressed.
Her comments come amid growing conversations about maternal mental health in Ghana. Her message is that awareness, medical care, and compassionate support can save mothers from prolonged suffering, and partners have a direct role in making space for that healing.
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