When joy doesn't come

Every mother expects to feel joy after childbirth. But for millions of women, that joy never comes. Instead, they experience fear, sadness, emotional numbness, anxiety, overwhelming guilt, and the frightening belief that they are failing as mothers. The truth is far different. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, endocrinology, and maternal medicine, When Joy Doesn't Come explains what really happens inside the maternal brain after childbirth.
Combining the latest scientific research with compassionate insight, this book reveals why postpartum depression develops, how it affects the brain and body, and, most importantly, why recovery is possible. This is more than a book about postpartum depression. It is a book about replacing fear with knowledge, stigma with understanding, and silence with hope