Oh horse crap. Another phony "disease".
I understand why you would say that.
Not that this proves anything one way or another, but
actress Brooke Shields wrote a book about such an experience
after one of her children was born.
“Down Came The Rain”.
Oh horse crap. Another phony “disease”.
There has been a lot of bad behavior blamed on post natal depression and post natal psychosis certainly but they are not phony illnesses. Now Post Natal depression generally can’t be used as an excuse for immoral behavior. A person is generally not robbed of their free will and moral restraints and while deeply depressed are generally oriented to themselves and know right from wrong...how ever some do become suicidal.
Post Natal psychosis is a really nasty issue and I’ve encountered it several times in my nursing career. Some never recover, can be injurious of themselves or others including their newborns or become totally disassociated from reality and become completely withdrawn from everyone and from themselves. They can become murderous.
Post Partum blues or depression is definitely what this person did not have.
Nothing phony about post partum depression.
Very dangerous.
There has been a lot of bad behavior blamed on post natal depression and post natal psychosis certainly but they are not phony illnesses. Now Post Natal depression generally can’t be used as an excuse for immoral behavior. A person is generally not robbed of their free will and moral restraints and while deeply depressed are generally oriented to themselves and know right from wrong...how ever some do become suicidal.
Post Natal psychosis is a really nasty issue and I’ve encountered it several times in my nursing career. Some never recover, can be injurious of themselves or others including their newborns or become totally disassociated from reality and become completely withdrawn from everyone and from themselves. They can become murderous.
Post Partum blues or depression is definitely what this person did not have.
NOT a phony disease.
For the first few weeks, our second child only slept 4 hours out of 24. Feeling isolated and exhausted caught up with me.
I got through it with the help of medication and an equally exhausted husband, but it was a main reason we did not have any more children.
It never occurred to me to harm the child, but I did think about throwing myself down some steps and maybe breaking a leg.
I later tried to help a friend through it, but her depression was compounded by the fear that her newborn had a genetic disease. She was so afraid of harming her children that she attempted suicide several times and required hospitalization.
I am not making excuses for this woman, just saying that post partum depression can cause psychosis. These precious lives could have been saved.
phony “disease”
In my experience, my wife could not understand why our son was not talking when he was 2 weeks old.
I was chosen by my friends wife to save her, after went crazy 2 days after birth of first child. She believed I knew everything about medicines. She was psychotic for about one week. Had to be heavily medicated and kept in hospital. She cleared and never again had that severe a reaction.
She would run down the hallway in the hospital screaming that the meds she was given were going to kill her and that the staff was “killing everyone” with medication. Thank God she made it and didn’t harm herself or anyone else.