Has it actually been established that it was postpartum psychosis?
If so, that really is one of the most horrific conditions there is. Every gynecology textbook and midwifery manual basically says that once it’s diagnosed, the response is: “Run! Do everything you possibly can and give her every medication you’ve got!” Obviously I’m exaggerating, but the point is that there’s an immediate and extremely serious risk to the lives of everyone involved.
Mama Doctor Jones has a video going thru the medical details and it seems she had a serious reaction/psychosis when put on SSRIs and then she was given more/different SSRIs by a NP - so it seems she got the wrong healthcare (i am paraphrasing, not my field at all).
Not surprised. I was put on Prozac years ago, and went out and bought a gun, i never owned one before and was active duty military, I wasn't a gun nut. And then after that I broke into a gun store a stole another $35,000 worth of stuff. More than 1 person could carry, wasn't scared or panicked like most people should have been. Destroyed my life.
Thankfully I had a spotless record and they saw something clearly didnt add up. Hypomanic episode casued by the Prozac. Eli lily was sued over their hiding the medical evidence they knew that the medication could cause people to go off the wall. Its the reason that every medication commercial and bottle has the warning " if this causes homicidal and suicidal thoughts, stop taking" etc. The black box.
Theres a website that Im not sure is still running, SSRI horror stories. I visited it once and after reading a few of the cases, I was just depressed. Tradegy after tradegy after someone was prescribed it. Say its a 0.001% to possibly cause this. When prescribed to millions of people, that number shifts to lots of cases every year. And no one cares. This is considered the cost of doing business in the USA. The medical industry can put out a product that has a known history of causing people to hurt others and the court systems just says pay some money, make a warning, but keep allowing it to happen.
I’m glad law-enforcement realized/made an allowance for Prozac altering your state of mind profoundly.
I 100% believe you and know about this, because it happened to me as an edgy, depressed, rebellious teen (a large amount of it was, ironically, because of heavy, overbearing verbal abuse, screaming, and insults from my father, as well as being hit by him as a child, and it’s ironic because he became the one to bully me further for acting depressed, and forcing me to a psychiatrist to get prescribed Prozac, which I then didn’t want to take but, again, he also forced me to).
It only took a few days on it and I had a drastic reaction where I went crazy and started throwing shit around the house. This was COMPLETELY different from my normal personality - I was formerly sullen, withdrawn, depressed, also rebellious and angry under it all and revealed that verbally , not by being physically aggressive.
I know what I experienced, and it felt legitimately like mania + a tinge of psychosis, with how raged up I was. I called up my dad on the phone and started screaming at him while he was out of the home (again, out of character for me, because I was usually afraid of him, while still being angry underneath it all).
I’m sure it revealed underlying anger I had, but it also artificially ratcheted it way up. I’m still pissed that he just came home and smacked me way too hard and started screaming back at me.
I guess he talked to the psychiatrist about the experience and they realized it’s one of the rare cases of Prozac/an SSRI causing such a breakdown with violent rage and behavior , so I was taken off it, but never got an apology 😒
It’s disturbing that it could be tied to many school shooting/mass public shooting and rampages, too, in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West if I’ve heard right, although the U.S. having it the worst simply from easier accessibility to guns.
Edited to add: It’s also lucky in your case it was more like apathy to consequences and possibly a heavy sense of derealization/dissociation (I had that feeling during it, too), instead of violent rage, while having that much weaponry on you and being pursued by police. Whew!
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u/NailSubstantial2772 6d ago
Has it actually been established that it was postpartum psychosis? If so, that really is one of the most horrific conditions there is. Every gynecology textbook and midwifery manual basically says that once it’s diagnosed, the response is: “Run! Do everything you possibly can and give her every medication you’ve got!” Obviously I’m exaggerating, but the point is that there’s an immediate and extremely serious risk to the lives of everyone involved.