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It Was Better Not to Know: Digital Recognition, Family Authority, and Postpartum Mental Health in Bangladesh
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Postpartum mental distress affects roughly one in five mothers in low- and lower-middle-income countries, yet recognition and support remain limited where formal mental-health care is scarce, and family relationships govern health decisions. We report a five-month interview study with 20 mothers in urban, urban slum, and rural Bangladesh who had given birth within the previous two years. Mothers encountered the concept of postpartum depression incidentally, through Facebook and YouTube recommendations rather than deliberate search or clinical guidance, and then used these platforms for private sensemaking without disclosing. Recognition, however, rarely traveled beyond the self: mothers could identify their distress while families dismissed it, leaving them with knowledge but no authority to act. Participants sought validation as a precondition for support and described recovery as relational rather than clinical or digital. We argue that postpartum technologies should engage partners, families, and community health workers rather than placing recognition solely on mothers.
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It Was Better Not to Know: Digital Recognition, Family Authority, and Postpartum Mental Health in Bangladesh
Postpartum mental distress affects roughly one in five mothers in low- and lower-middle-income countries, yet recognition and support remain limited where formal mental-health care is scarce, and family relationships govern health decisions. We report a five-month interview study with 20 mothers in urban, urban slum, and rural Bangladesh who had given birth within the previous two years. Mothers encountered the concept of postpartum depression incidentally, through Facebook and YouTube recommendations rather than deliberate search or clinical guidance, and then used these platforms for private sensemaking without disclosing. Recognition, however, rarely traveled beyond the self: mothers could identify their distress while families dismissed it, leaving them with knowledge but no authority to act. Participants sought validation as a precondition for support and described recovery as relational rather than clinical or digital. We argue that postpartum technologies should engage partners, families, and community health workers rather than placing recognition solely on mothers.
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