I'm thankful for your reply but what is DSM IV? giving birth wasn't the traumatic part. it was realizing that now I am responcible for someone. How she turns out as a person totally falls on me. I had a pretty crappy childhood and now I am scared that I have to protect her from the horrible that is the world. I didn't even want to have children because I thought the world is so cruel; why would I bring an innocent life into that!The world isn't what is used to be when even I was a kid and just seems to get worse as time goes on.