Maternity Blues and Post-partum Depression – Findings from Greece

during the first days of puerperium and is characterised mainly by tearfulness, mood swings, fatigue, insomnia, negative thinking, low mood and difficulty in thinking.1 The fact that a number of studies from different countries have reported a variety of prevalence rates and socioeconomic factors related to the occurrence of MB2–4 has raised the issue of cultural differences and especially the influence of culture in family support during puerperium.5 There are authors who have suggested that MB is a cultural-bound syndrome that is observed mainly in Western cultures where the traditional supportive rituals involved in the period of puerperium have subsided.6