how to cope with post-natal depression?

Well the biggest part of coping with post partum depression is realizing you have it. After I had my daughter I was always really sad and had no idea why. I mean here I am with this beautiful, healthy little baby so why should I be so sad. But after talking to my midwife at my 6 week checkup she told me I was experiencing some post partum depression. She prescribed me some Zoloft to get me through the bad part of it and recommended that I talk about it. I never went to a professional about it. But I was really active on Myspace at that point and was a member of several mom groups. I started seeing more and more moms on there talking about PPD. So I decided to start my own little support group on their for women going through ppd. It was really great to be able to talk to these women and be able to share our stories and support each other. It has been over a year now and most of us are past it now but we have still remained really close friends.