#postpartum psychosis

[psychotic-tbh]

Do any other social folks on the schizophrenia spectrum also feel like they don’t know how to “people” after an episode?

It’s so strange to look back on how social I was when my symptoms were less severe and how (almost) outgoing I was

Now I’m not even sure how to talk to close friends and am just awkward. I lost my conversation skills :(

[schizopositivity]

If you're talking about mental health issues in someone who just gave birth, don't just call it "postpartum" and only mean postpartum depression and assume everyone only understands that means postpartum depression, because postpartum psychosis exists too.

When you're talking about neurodiversity/mental illness, don't just say "the spectrum" and only mean the autism spectrum and assume everyone understands that only means the autism spectrum, because the schizophrenia spectrum exists too.

I understand that most people think that schizophrenia or psychosis isn't the norm. Most people don't include us in general conversations. But that doesn't mean we don't exist. Postpartum psychosis is very real and should be talked about more. Schizophrenia is a spectrum and more people should understand that.

Those of us with psychosis or schizophrenia are used to being excluded but it hurts a bit more when we're being completely excluded from conversations specifically about mental illness. By defaulting "postpartum" or "the spectrum" to not include us, it feels like you're saying postpartum psychosis doesn't exist, or schizophrenia isn't also a spectrum. When you treat postpartum or the spectrum as if they only mean one thing, it implies that there is no other postpartum mental health conditions, or no other mental illness spectrums. It's not that hard to add an extra word to be specific.

I know this isn't a huge deal, and I might just be nit picking. But I think these two examples show how those of us with psychosis or schizophrenia are always excluded, even from other mentally ill people. Many people don't know that postpartum psychosis even exists. Many people don't know that schizophrenia is also a spectrum. And the general understanding won't change, if the only people using inclusive language are those of us who have it.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Once or twice I've heard ghost stories along the lines of, "A woman gave birth and then sacrificed the baby to the Devil, wooo!" And when I dug deeper into the story, I thought, "Hang on, this sounds like postpartum psychosis." I love a good old fashioned spooky story as much as the next gal, but that realization adds a different level of tragedy to the whole thing. The woman didn't sacrifice her baby to the Devil; she suffered from an untreated illness that prompted her to commit an unspeakable act. Yeesh.

So here's my idea: an expecting family moves to a house occupied by the ghost of a woman who murdered her newborn due to PPP. The living mother gives birth shortly after the move, and that's when the haunting begins in earnest. Stuck in the mental state that she died in, the dead mom starts pushing the same delusions that she suffered onto the living mom and urging her to kill her kid. Woooo, spooky!

Thing is, the living mom is also suffering from PPP, and the ghost's antics just kinda blend in with the delusions that she is already dealing with. She and her partner quickly realize that Something Ain't Right, maybe even recognize her symptoms as PPP, and seek medical help. The treatment is effective, and the living mom begins to recover from her illness.

At first the dead mom just keeps at it with the haunting. But as the living mom goes through her treatment, it starts affecting her, too. She listens to the conversations living mom and partner have about mental illness, and things start to click. The medication that living mom is taking affects dead mom, too, because she linked herself to living mom in order to haunt her. Maybe living mom even discovers a previously undiagnosed condition during her treatment (evidence indicates that there's a link between PPP and bipolar disorder), and she and dead mom have a simultaneous YOOOOOOOOOO moment as they suddenly get answers to So Much Shit that disrupted their lives.

At some point living mom and her partner realize that the former isn't just wrestling with a nasty illness, their house is literally haunted. They do some research, discover the dead mom's story, and go, "Wow, this sounds like the shit we went through!" Meanwhile, living mom's treatment has affected dead mom so much that her haunting antics have started to change. As she escapes the disordered thinking that killed her and her baby, she begins to grieve her loss and bond with the living baby. Living mom and partner have noticed that their haunting has changed for the better, and correctly guess that dead mom is also getting over her illness. They decide to try to communicate with dead mom so they can include her in their healing process.

Eventually, living mom and dead mom both recover. It's not 100% smooth sailing, of course, but when one of them suffers a relapse, the other is there to help them pull out of it. Living mom and partner also help dead mom deal with the grief/trauma that occurs as she accepts that she committed this horrifying crime. At the climax, the living couple finds the graveyard where dead mom's baby is buried. The trio visit the grave together, and dead mom breaks down. She really wanted that baby. She was so looking forward to raising a family. But this fucked up disorder ruined all that in the worst way possible. Rationally speaking, she knows she wasn't in full control of her actions, but emotionally speaking, she cannot escape the profound guilt. And even if she did, it wouldn't fix the harm she did. Her baby is dead. Her baby never had the chance to experience the full depths of life, and she is the reason why. Dead mom apologizes to the baby's grave. She is so, so sorry for what she did to them. She would do anything to undo her actions and give her baby the life they deserved. At the very least, she wishes she could have said goodbye.

The story ends shortly thereafter. With this burst of cathartic grief, dead mom is finally able to let go of her ties to the living world, and move onto the next. OR: dead mom goes home with the living couple. She's still crying on and off, but as living mom and partner comfort her, she starts to smile a bit. As bad as she feels right now, it's clear that she's going to be okay in the long run. And as living baby grows up, they get to have three parents instead of two.

[laikacore]

“yes, even after”

it cracks deep

“yes, even though rare”

where did she go?

“can you experience”

don’t tell me you don’t know his name

it cracks deep

it spills out

“in those predisposed”

i lay in the sheets, i go deeper

it’s funny that you told me not to talk about it

postpartum psychosis 1 by laika wallace

[hydropyro]

When my oldest was a few months old I was still suffering from postpartum psychosis.

I was in a shopping center running some errands. I did some food shopping and got some McDonalds for lunch.

I was new to England and was still getting used to the way things are done here. Believe it or not, America to England is a huge culture shock.

My baby was screaming so I took her out of the stroller — and the shopping hung on the handles threw the stroller back. The milk split open and started to run down the decline. My baby was still screaming. I was sat on a bench, my food getting cold beside me, my baby screaming, my shopping in ruin, completely numb. Frozen in panic.

A woman bent down in front of me and touched my shoulder. She asked if she could sit with me and help me. I don’t know if I said anything. I don’t know if I could have.

She helped me arrange my baby so I could breastfeed her, and she opened my straw and put it in my drink. Then she picked up my shopping and sent her husband to find a janitor for the milk.

Once everything was settled — she said have a good day and she and her husband left.

I was so out of it I wouldn’t recognise her if I saw her again. I don’t know if I was able to thank her at the time. But I was in such a bad place, suffering alone thousands of miles from home, and that little gesture meant the world.

[etubrutebae]

Wish I had cool hyperfixations tf is the treatment of post partum psychosis in the 1800s to 1960s and why is it the only thing I've thought about for the last months

[drmeghadama]

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[psychotic-tbh]

Does anyone else’s mental illness mess with their spiritual beliefs, and if so, how?

Not looking to be converted or debated. :0

[shaynly-babieblue]

Postpartum Psychosis Awareness Day, launched by survivors of postpartum psychosis in 2021 to raise awareness about the most severe and devastating of perinatal mental health disorders. This is an opportunity to support mothers and families who have experienced postpartum psychosis, to increase awareness of postpartum psychosis, and to provide education to mothers, families, and health care providers

[cypresswood3]

It's the last episode of Malevolent. Kayne agrees to bring Faroe back. "But first," he says, "let's go over what happened once again."

And there they are, young Arthur Lester and Faroe. Young Arthur, crushed after his wife's death, restrained by a life he didn't want, without a soul in the world to help him, yearning for nothing more than to revert time.

Holding the little girl's head under the water until she stops moving.

"Impressive how you can wholeheartedly believe a lie you made up yourself, hm?" Kayne asks, patting him on the shoulder. "Dissociative amnesia they call it, I believe? Or not? Uh, no matter. Do you remember now?"

[thruthelookingmax]

i think there's something to be said about the differences between fandom interpretation of lottie's schizophrenia and shauna's psychosis.

lottie's schizophrenia is generally accepted because it was established early on and she's timid about it, whereas shauna's (postpartum) psychosis is obvious and sudden. you are not confronted with lottie's mental illness in the same way you are shauna's psychosis. lottie is used as this guide, this god, for the girls and thus her symptoms are just the wilderness. and her symptoms manage to protect them, to warn them. so it's palatable.

shauna goes into postpartum psychosis and it isn't palatable, because she's angry and brash and, well, psychotic. it doesn't make lottie any less psychotic. it just makes hers easier to ignore.

idk just something i'm rotating in my brain this season.

[pushing500]

Bold to start a fight when you're immediately postpartum, you're relying on your opponent's (already very limited) hospitality to keep you and your new baby alive, and you have a horrendous melee ability.

Brown's religion is a nudist, cannibal, high-life cult. Not sure it'll be the best environment for Wombat to grow up in, tbh, and it certainly isn't helping Brown recover any faster.

A fight on one side, a shuttle crash on the other, a deathly ill newborn baby lingering in the back of his mind... What a day for poor Kwahu.

The sole survivor of the shuttle crash was an Avaloi named Yuki. She's very pretty and looks to be healing up fast, thanks to Kwahu's expert care. Hopefully she'll leave quickly, as her genetic dependency on alcohol might be tricky to manage in a colony that focuses all its beverage-production on coffee.

Of course, once Randy starts he just doesn't stop, so he decided the Jones boys needed a nice psychic drone on top of everything else. Very rude.

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[bulldog-butch]

I just saw someone saying Travis had it “way worse” than Shauna and yet he’s not going off the rails and while I think trauma isn’t a competition, I don’t think people understand how fucking bad postpartum depression/psychosis can be and how long it can last. And on top of that shauna’s baby didn’t even make it

[mexisco]

WITCHES (dir. Elizabeth Sankey, 2024).

[howdoyousleep3]

I would like to rant about motherhood and the awful things about it, read more bar is there if you don’t want to read it or engage with my rant. I don’t blame you if you want nothing to do with it, it’s more for me anyway lol

Never in my life have I ever felt so lonely and so depressed, just genuinely, at the core sad and alone.

I have people in my life, but I don’t have a village. My village is in shambles. It’s full of people who like to ask how I am, but don’t like to hear that I’m not well. The people I’ve reached out to got angry at me for reaching out, so I’ve just stopped reaching out. “I’m fine.” The people who have helped me with the girls fuck it up every fucking time, don’t listen to me or my wishes or my open anxieties. So, not only do I not share how I’m actually doing, now I don’t call on people to help me because it isn’t worth the trouble of them fucking up my children’s day-to-day life and schedule.

It’s impossible to not feel like a burden to others when their lives are unaffected, when they aren’t drowning like I am, when every aspect of their life hasn’t been greatly altered and twisted. I am not the same person I once was and I’ll never go back to her. I don’t know how to dress, I don’t know how to interact with people, I don’t know what my hobbies are. It’s hard to not feel like a bother when I’ve been this sad for this long.

No one understands if they haven’t done this before, if they haven’t become a mother. I understand what mothers before me were talking about when they told me motherhood is lonely. This is an experience that is so specific and can only be understood if you have experienced it. Another reason I don’t confide in others in my life— they don’t understand.

I’m so tired of the empty, “I’m sorry”s. I’m so tired of waking up and living the same day over and over. I’m so tired of my husband’s life being virtually unaffected by the birth of our girls while mine is so genuinely fucked up now.

I’m just so tired and so lonely and so sad.

And now Husband leaves in a week to start a new job three hours away and I’ll be staying here with the girls. Even more alone.