The bill would ensure mental health evaluations by reproductive psychiatry experts, ensure treatment when needed, and recognize postpartum psychosis as a mitigating factor in sentencing.
This study uncovers how trauma, isolation, loss of identity, and lack of support can overlap and amplify each other, deepening despair and driving suicide risk among women in the perinatal period.
The Mass General Hospital Postpartum Psychosis Project shares the trailer for In Their Words: Reflections from those with Lived Experience of Postpartum Psychosis.
The MGHP3 study provides key insights into the onset, duration, treatment, and characteristics of postpartum psychosis in a large, diverse cohort.
Loss of at least one night’s sleep at the time of labor and delivery is a potent risk factor for postpartum psychosis in women with bipolar disorder.
Women with medical, psychiatric, and obstetric risk factors should be closely followed within pregnancy and the postpartum.
Postpartum psychosis is the most severe form of postpartum psychiatric illness. What are the signs and symptoms?
Although the last decade has brought increased awareness of and interest in postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, our understanding of the etiology of this most severe form of postpartum mental illness remains elusive.
This very helpful list from Wendy Davis, PhD, Executive Director of Postpartum Support International, describes what the various emergency services can provide.
A recent review and meta-analysis found that upwards of 20% of women with no history of psychiatric illness experience their first bipolar-spectrum mood episode during the perinatal period.
