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WHAT IS POST PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS? This rare and severe depression is characterised by psychotic symptoms or abnormally elevated mood (hypomania).

I thought I'd killed Ryan. I was in a world of my own; JUST weeks after her baby Ryan was born, Joanne Robe suffered terrifying delusions and hallucinations. She tells KAREN WILSON about her battle with the severest form of post natal depress ion

The old conception of "puerperal psychosis" (MacDonald, 1847) as a special entity is no longer tenable, although it is a convenient term in everyday use, so long as it is understood to refer to the setting in which the psychosis occurs and is not in itself a diagnosis.

Canadian infanticide legislation, 1948 and 1955: reflections on the medicalization/autopoiesis debate

Six years on, Jackie is co-ordinator of a research project called Action on Puerperal Psychosis, run by a team of doctors at Birmingham University and headed by Professor Ian Brockington.

Health: Coping when birth turns mum manic; Ros Dodd discusses an illness that goes far beyond post- natal depression

Tests over the next few days confirmed that Grace was suffering from puerperal psychosis - an extreme form of postnatal depression.

I didn't believe my little girl was mine.. EXCLUSIVE Grace Sharrock's terrible postnatal depression made her think she'd had a baby boy instead of a girl. So when she got pregnant with twins she was terrified the nightmare would happen again... By Alison Smith-Squire

The mum from Sunderland was eventually diagnosed with a rare and severe form of postnatal depression called Puerperal Psychosis.

I thought I was going to die but all I could think of was 'who's going to look after my kids?' POST Natal Depression can be a debilitating illness that affects up to 15% of new mums. In the first of a series of features PND sufferer Christine Stephenson tells her story to KAREN WILSON

Postnatal depression covers a broad range of conditions from the so-called "baby blues" to the severe and life-threatening puerperal psychosis.

under pressure? Health Editor Madeleine Brindley asks whether society and the media are putting too much pressure on pregnant women to become perfect mothers

Mum to Eilidh, 15, Billy, 11, and five-year-old Erin, Lorna had developed puerperal psychosis, the most severe form of the condition and was twice admitted to psychiatric hospital as doctors feared for her life.

I felt so guilty about Katie, suicide made sense to me; Support group helped Lorna beat post-natal depression

Prophylactic lithium in puerperal psychosis. Br J Psychiatry.

Postpartum psychosis: strategies to protect infant and mother from harm: counsel at-risk women before delivery, and be alert for rapid symptom onset

By their child's first Christmas, she was in a psychiatric hospital suffering the most severe form, puerperal psychosis.

Childbirth led to self-harming and treatment in psychiatric hospital; POST-NATAL DEPRESSION TREATMENT CONCERNS

After having Pauline, she also got puerperal psychosis a severe form of post natal depression.

It was as a huge high when my my wee girl girl was born.. born.. but the come down almost killed me

The findings come from a study of 120 women at high risk of the condition known as puerperal psychosis.

Hopes rise of cure for post-natal depression

Puerperal psychosis following ablaction with bromocriptine.

Postpartum psychosis induced by bromocriptine and pseudoephedrine

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