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Postpartum depression starts later, is more intense and devastating, and lasts longer than postpartum after-baby blues. It may start anytime during the first year postpartum. The mother gradually slips deeper and deeper into depression, becomes increasingly incapable functioning, and thinks angry and hurtful thoughts about her baby, which she suppresses because she’s “not supposed to think this way.” She becomes lonely and isolated and feels she has lost control. She is truly suffering.