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What you need to know about depression and pregnancy

Prenatal depression can be hard to detect because it disguises itself under pregnancy hormonal shifts (Photo: Shutterstock)

Depression is a serious mental health condition that requires urgent care. 

It’s hard for people to understand what depression feels like, more so antenatal depression. The pressure is twice as much when you’re pregnant because you have another life depending on you. But depression is an ugly monster that has no mercy at all.

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