Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness

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Offering an understanding of postpartum psychosis, this riveting book explains what happens and why all over this temporary and dangerous disorder that develops for some women hastily after childbirth. Most of us are familiar with the baby blues, a passing sadness that strikes 50 to 75 percent of new mothers after delivery. And most of us understand postpartum depression, a sadness post-delivery that lingers for weeks or months for an estimated one in every 10 new mothers. But a more serious form of disorder that strikes up to one in every 500 is postpartum psychosis – triggering severe agitation, confusion, insomnia, hallucinations, delusions, mania, and imaginable thoughts of suicide or murder. Every year, women in the United States and around the world kill their babies, children, and themselves on account of this mental illness. Here, creator Twomey, an official with Postpartum Give a boost to International, gives us insight into the psychological, personal, medical, legal, and historical perspectives on this little-understood mental illness, which is both preventable and treatable.

While most women who suffer postpartum psychosis eventually get better without harming anyone, they most frequently do so in silence. Paranoia is a common symptom, explains Twomey, and that moves women to hide their symptoms from everyone around them. The woman can hence appear normal, but be putting both herself and her baby at risk. We will be able to prevent and treat this, but we wish to recognize it by better screening of women postpartum, says Twomey.

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