What is Puerperal Psychosis?

We define Puerperal psychosis as any manic or other psychotic illness sufferer by a woman, which begins in the first 6 weeks after she has given birth to a child. (Some authorities would include any such illness beginning within 3 or 6 months of childbirth.) If a woman sufferer manic symptoms, she will seem very excited and elated. She will often talk very fast, not completing sentences and jumping from 1 topic to another.

She may be overactive, not sleeping and rushing from one task to another. She may be bossy and demanding and becoming angry and aggressive if crossed. Some sufferers become severely depressed or have both manic and depressive phases.

Other psychotic symptoms include hallucinations, that is seeing or hearing things which are not there and delusions such as believing their baby is the Messiah or that people are trying to harm her. Puerperal psychosis is not included as a category within the official symptoms of classification used by psychiatrists and there is ... more.

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