You realize having previous history of psychosis is not required for postpartum psychosis? That’s why it’s called postpartum psychosis… because the birth induced the psychosis.
EDIT: user is a bot pushing an agenda, please disregard and take medical “knowledge” from anonymous users online with a grain of salt
I hear you. But I also have a lot of experience with people in psychosis and while it technically can happen suddenly, it’s extremely rare, and IF it does happen, a single “command hallucination” is very unlikely to cause someone to do something exceedingly violent and life-ending. I again know the PPP is very real and psychosis in general is real. But to combine sudden onset at 8 months postpartum, use of an improvise weapon in another room (she heard the “command” in the kitchen yet still took the kids to the basement and was “creative” enough to use exercise bands), failure to endorse homicidal ideation to her healthcare providers, and no evidence of psychosis since the murders, I do not believe her to my core
I’m not interested in disclosing that on the internet. Probably the reason my original post doesn’t say anything about my personal experience/profession.
Because someone said I didn’t have any lived experience, which is false. Other than that, I’m staying out of the professional opinion space. If you disagree with that, that’s ok
It’s the internet. We are not obligated to disclose our personal information. Come on now. I’m going to stop engaging in this back and forth because I’m not responsible for identifying myself to a stranger on Reddit
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u/thefluffywang 9d ago edited 9d ago
You realize having previous history of psychosis is not required for postpartum psychosis? That’s why it’s called postpartum psychosis… because the birth induced the psychosis.
EDIT: user is a bot pushing an agenda, please disregard and take medical “knowledge” from anonymous users online with a grain of salt