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When Carla, a twenty-six-year-old mother, experienced mild sadness after the birth of her first child, she thought nothing of it because she felt complete relief after several weeks; however after her second pregnancy she experienced a more severe form of unhappiness. Two months passed while Carla was dwelling on her feeling of how awful a mother she was. This is an account similar to that of many other mothers who have lived through postpartum depression, described in Linda Sebastian’s book Overcoming Postpartum Depression and Anxiety (45). Carla and the many women just like her who encounter misery after delivery make postpartum depression an evident issue. Diagnosing a woman with postpartum depression can sometimes be a difficult task. Due to the confusing explanation in the DSM-IV TR(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition text revision), written by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), defining the criteria for postpartum depression can be difficult because of the fact that it can pertain to many other depressive disorders. The following disorders share some of the same symptoms with postpartum depression: Bipolar I Disorder, Bipolar II Disorder, Major Depressive, Manic Depressive, Mixed Episode of a