Is there any curing of PPD?

Do you know of anyone who has been cured? When I say cured, I mean they don't exhibit the traits anymore.

My ex had PPD. It's the reason I left. It caused intense problems. He said he could not change. Please tell me-- Do you know of any who have left it in the dust? Or does it not happen? There is no wrong answer, of course. just curious.

The PROBLEMS are the reason I left. wanted to clarify. not the PPD itself, but the problems he let it create.

From what i have read and experienced i dont think there is a cure for ppd. It is extremly hard for sufferers to accept any help. I belive that the symptoms can be managed through medication and counselling but a lot of sufferers have a mistrust of doctors and wont accept help

I am going to search for it, although I cannot tell you right of where I read it, but there was a post somewhere by a fellow who claims to have been cured of it. He even explains how it developed and how he got better. One of the things that really stuck with me was when he made a statement to the effect of: "I was always getting people to try and prove themselves to me and no matter what I they did I was never going to believe them."

I do believe that PPD can be cured. I think CBT and other therapies that focus on thought processes can have a lot of positive impact. The problem with PPD is that those who suffer from it are so distrustful of others, especially mental health professionals.

Justme97 wrote:Do you know of anyone who has been cured? When I say cured, I mean they don't exhibit the traits anymore.

My ex had PPD. It's the reason I left. It caused intense problems. He said he could not change. Please tell me-- Do you know of any who have left it in the dust? Or does it not happen? There is no wrong answer, of course. just curious.

I don't think anyone "leaves it in the dust". But...I can say that there are people out there I trust. But it's one of those things where you have to earn my trust. This develops over time (and for whatever reason, not everyone earns it...even after time has passed). Usually, I'll heavily scrutinize the person before I feel I can trust them. I can be very critical with this, no doubt. I can't say there is any "secret formula". I might just suddenly feel someone can no longer be trusted (for whatever reason). It's based on a lot of "pure intuition".

By "cure", what do you mean? The paranoia or the anxiety? I'm sure it's possible to get the anxiety to a minimum, as with any disorder, but the paranoia is the hard part, especially because there's so many good reasons to be paranoid.

Like, if you look in the news, people lose their jobs over something they said 7 or more years ago. In Scotland, there's a comedian going to jail because of a bad joke.

You can have faith that people are lazy and if you keep your nose down, no one will bother coming after you. But there just doesn't seem to be a good reason not to be paranoid.

I'm not sure if it's curable? It's said that it's incurable by mental health professionals. Haven't read up on any recent studies if there are any though.

For myself as a paranoid person, I've opened up more and become more friendly towards people. But the initial paranoid thoughts seem to always take shape any time I encounter another human on the street or anywhere really. It's just a matter of dealing with the initial thought and shutting it down. Also the thoughts happen when I think of the past or how the future might unfold as well.

It's really a 24/7 illness I think. Anytime I think about another person it usually has a paranoid inflection to it.