Hawthor allerted me to a new campaign to screen all moms for post partum emotional illness.
Read her excellent post and check out the comments below, they provide a compelling conversation for where we are with education and current myths in the minds of many women regarding what causes post partum illness.
My long time readers know that I had a post partum psychosis after the birth of my first baby….

This is a picture of me with my oldest daughter Michelle when she was ten days old. I did not become manic until we moved when she was six weeks old. After a month of mania, little social support, and very little sleep, I dropped over the cliff into psychosis and was hospitalized for six weeks.

Here is a picture of me in suicidal depression over a year later. I had been court ordered to eat Haldol, Lithium, and Stelazine. This picture was taken after Prozac was added to my chemical cocktail and a few days before I was hospitalized again, this time for suicidal depression. I am convinced the Prozac tipped me over into suicidal thinking.

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