Jargon Buster

One in two women who have just given birth experience a period of mild depression know as the ‘baby blues’. This tends to last a few hours, at most a few days, and then it disappears. See ‘Post natal Depression’.

See ‘Manic Depression’

Bulimia may go unnoticed as appearance remains the same and the person seems to cope normally with his or her life. However eating is chaotic and involves long periods of bingeing alone followed by self-induced vomiting and abuse of laxatives.