Sheila Sullivan is a psychiatric survivor who is advocating for a change in the perception of Postpartum Depression and Psychosis. She is also a survivor of the suicidal and psychotic side effects of psychiatric drugs and shock treatments.

Following the last of three psychiatric hospitalizations, back in 1982 she would change the direction of her’s and her only son’s lives due to the doubts that were caused by this hospitalization. She made a promise to herself at this time that she would do anything and everything she could to uncover what caused her childbearing years to turn into a nightmare.

The decision she made as a result of what happened in the Andrea Yates case to finally tell her story would lead her on a journey of research and personal experiences in the past nine years that has provide her provide her with profound insight into the interrelationship between hormone imbalances, trauma and memory. She has returned to college and is currently in the process of writing a research paper on the primary and secondary causes of Postpartum Depression and Psychosis that she hopes will lead to a new understanding of these conditions.