Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Postpartum-Psychosis and Depression
Postpartum-Psychosis is a rare but possible psychiatric emergency that changes people's (mothers) minds and makes them think differently than what they usually think about. Most people that have this usually go through a time of depression, hallucinations and sometimes severe confusion. Most times this happens about two weeks after birth and can last from 2-12 weeks. During the weeks that they have postpartum-psychosis, mothers will usually stay in the hospital to make sure that nothing else goes on and/or gets worse. Most mothers that have it will recover because it usually is just a time of depression but if it gets worse it can be consider Postpartum Depression which isn't treatable and would have to live it through their entire life. People between the age of 19-40 and the only way they could possibly fix it, is through counseling.
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This condition sounds scary for anyone who might experience it. It also sounds scary for the people who are close to that person, since one of the people they care for is depressed and hallucinating at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThis condition is very scary due to the fact that at one point a mother can be madly in love with her child to having little to no affection towards them. Due to the hallucinations it leads to scary situations and confusion which could lead to harm of the newborn or family members.
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