Learn About the Different Types of Postpartum DepressionEmpower Asks: Can You Explain the different types of PPD?Dr. Ann Dunnewold: Yes, there are postpartum anxiety disorders where a woman is primarily worried and can even become obsessive. So we would have postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder where she gets stuck on ideas of harm that could come to herself or her child. There are women who have panic attacks, so postpartum panic is an entity that we see.Theres a more generic postpartum depression where a woman might have a mix of low mood and intense worry and concerns that she cant be a good mother and that sort of thing that would be a more generic postpartum depression.Theres the postpartum stress disorder which is where a woman is reacting to a concrete stress that may have happened, like a difficult birth or she may be relating back to an incident that happened when she was young, and going through the medical procedures to give birth may raise those feelings again.And theres postpartum psychosis or mania in which a woman is not thinking clearly. She really isnt herself. She has ideas that most people would agree are somewhat strange or odd and just really doesnt look at the world the way other people look at the world.