Submitted by Jezebels_lipstick t3_10my96a in boston
rayvin4000 t1_j66bev0 wrote
Reply to comment by EducationalElevator in 8-month-old baby injured in Duxbury family tragedy dies, DA says by Jezebels_lipstick
I don't know anything about postpartum depression but I know my mom had it and did not kill me. So I honestly don't know. Other people say it's unbelievable what it can do to you.
Edit: I'm legit wondering why I am so heavily down voted. I am legitimately asking a question I know nothing about.
Feisty-Donkey t1_j66cof4 wrote
Postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are different illnesses. This is a tragedy on the level of the Andrea Yates story which is very similar, right down to medical personnel making it very clear that the mother was too mentally unstable to be left alone with the children.
[deleted] t1_j66cgp4 wrote
It is a form of psychosis which is what schizophrenia is. It is a break from reality with auditory or visual hallucinations. Psychosis is psychosis. Post partum psychosis refers to psychosis occurring after giving birth.
rayvin4000 t1_j66cnlc wrote
I see. So ppd is way different than psychosis.
[deleted] t1_j66dnvu wrote
No. It is the same psychosis ETA: PPD is psychosis that develops after birth. But psychosis is psychosis. It isn’t a different kind of psychosis. It is usually temporary and will resolve unlike schizophrenia in which suffers have psychosis and hallucinations but that illness is lifelong
Feisty-Donkey t1_j66e39e wrote
Her comment was correct. PPD= Postpartum Depression.
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