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theatlantic.com
The Role of Postpartum Psychosis in Infanticide - The Atlantic
Although not all women who kill their children suffer from mental illness, <strong>mothers who suffer from postpartum psychosis sometimes hurt themselves or their children during a psychotic episode</strong>.
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my.clevelandclinic.org
Postpartum Psychosis: What It Is, Symptoms & Treatment
This condition is especially severe and dangerous because it disrupts a person’s sense of reality. That puts <strong>people with PPP at risk of dying by suicide or harming their children</strong>.
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nbcnews.com
What is postpartum psychosis? Rare condition is in the spotlight after the killing of three children in Massachusetts
Hallucinations and delusions that alter a mother’s sense of reality are part of postpartum psychosis. The illness, which is treatable, requires emergency care. ... Jan. 30, 2023, 5:11 PM EST ... A Massachusetts woman accused of killing her three children has put a spotlight on a rare condition that mental health advocates say is shrouded in shame, often preventing mothers from seeking treatment.
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medpagetoday.com
Postpartum Psychosis: A Life-Threatening Emergency | MedPage Today
This harkens back to 2 decades ago and the tragic case of Andrea Yates, who had been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis long before she murdered her five young children. The postpartum is romanticized as the perfect time of bonding with a new baby. But the reality is that for many new mothers, it is a difficult time, with a new role with new responsibilities, limited opportunities to sleep, and hormonal shifts.
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cnn.com
The Lindsay Clancy trial brings maternal mental health into the spotlight | CNN
Instead, they contend that she is not criminally responsible because she was experiencing postpartum psychosis, a rare mental health condition. After Callan’s birth, Clancy had taken medication for mental health problems, according to her providers, and had sought help from several mental health professionals who testified this week. Prosecutors claim that Patrick Clancy’s descriptions of how he found his children and the methods his wife used to strangle them are evidence of “deliberate premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty, and the state of mind of the defendant.”
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psychiatryonline.org
Maternal Infanticide Associated With Mental Illness: Prevention and the Promise of Saved Lives | American Journal of Psychiatry
In June 2001, the U.S. public was riveted when the media revealed that Andrea Yates had drowned her five children in the bathtub of her Houston, Texas, home (2). Perhaps no other case of infanticide or filicide (murder of a child age >1 year) (3) has demonstrated the paucity of our medical and legal knowledge and understanding of postpartum psychosis and associated infanticide. Andrea Pia Yates was a devoted mother who home-schooled her children. Although she was pregnant and/or breast-feeding over the previous 7 years, she cared for her bedridden father as well as her own growing family, which included Noah, age 7 years; John, age 5; Paul, age 3; Luke, age 2; and Mary, age 6 months.
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