Post-Adoption Baby Blues

PADS: Post Adoption Depression Syndrome.
Many parents work for years finding a child to adopt and convincing social workers and adoption agencies of their "superior parenting skills" that when they actually become parents, it isn't the dream world they've come to imagine. It seems dumb, I mean, shouldn't parenthood be a dream world? Shouldn't your adopted children mean everything to you? But then again, for years parents dream about having a child-imagining the best of all possible situations. Depression comes in that transition/adjustment period. It isn't very well-known because most mothers experiencing this suffer in silence. They feel ashamed that they might not love a child that they've worked so hard for. Women also feel like they don't have a right to feel depressed.. postpartum depression is caused by a change in hormones.. but adoption doesn't affect that. So why feel sad? I think it is something that no one can understand unless experienced, but this video can give you some insight.