In the UK we have some mother and baby units for women with post partum psychosis. They're much better for the women, most people spend around 7-8 weeks in them I was borderline ending up in one.
Post partum psychosis is really misunderstood - a lot of the psychosis comes from actually wanting to protect your child to the point that you become a danger to them. I flipped between delusions that started with the thought that social services coming to take them so I packed bags for them so they wouldn't be without their things, but that eventually lead to "knowing" the government were trying to steal my youngest child so I planned to kill both of us.
I also had delusions where he wasn't a real baby but a being that wanted to harm my eldest daughter. That was a really dangerous time for my baby.
I kept both of my kids the whole time, and with a lot of support and therapy, and with a multidisciplinary team around me I'm ok again. 7 years later I've qualified as a therapist myself, and hope to start working in the postpartum field soon.
ETA: the good faith comments have ended and I'm getting nowt but pithy one liners from trolls saying ridiculous things. Going to turn off comments and stop responding now.
I work in an MBU, we love all our mothers and babies and will do whatever we can to help. It really opened my eyes to postpartum psychosis, and now I can’t imagine nursing any other demographic. We want you to go home and be a family desperately, and to primarily be safe.
Postpartum psychosis is temporary, wilfully obtuse people who have black and white thinking will refute the medical and scientific evidence and throw away personal experience. They have sort of gleefully misinformed concerns of their own.
Worked on a ward for a couple of years. One patient had Post partum in that time. She was 17, in psychosis and was suicidal. She kept complaint about pain in her uterus. Something fell out of her vagina, something that should have been taken care of post birthing. The emergency psychiatrist wouldn't allow her off the ward to be seen by a gynecologist.....they don't care. They don't care about women. And she was just a kid. So small and scared. One of the only clients who stuck with me.
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u/Playful_Flower5063 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
In the UK we have some mother and baby units for women with post partum psychosis. They're much better for the women, most people spend around 7-8 weeks in them I was borderline ending up in one.
Post partum psychosis is really misunderstood - a lot of the psychosis comes from actually wanting to protect your child to the point that you become a danger to them. I flipped between delusions that started with the thought that social services coming to take them so I packed bags for them so they wouldn't be without their things, but that eventually lead to "knowing" the government were trying to steal my youngest child so I planned to kill both of us.
I also had delusions where he wasn't a real baby but a being that wanted to harm my eldest daughter. That was a really dangerous time for my baby.
I kept both of my kids the whole time, and with a lot of support and therapy, and with a multidisciplinary team around me I'm ok again. 7 years later I've qualified as a therapist myself, and hope to start working in the postpartum field soon.
ETA: the good faith comments have ended and I'm getting nowt but pithy one liners from trolls saying ridiculous things. Going to turn off comments and stop responding now.