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Despite Recent Cases, Postpartum Depression, Psychosis Remain Misunderstood.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

| August 06, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Marie McCullough

Aug. 6--A wide range of women battle depression after giving birth. Only a tiny segment suffer something far worse -- postpartum psychosis.

Women with this rare, little-understood psychiatric disorder have delusions, hallucinations and lose touch with reality, sometimes with heartbreaking consequences.

Andrea Yates, the Texas woman sentenced to life in prison for methodically drowning each of her five children, had a history of pyschosis.

And mental health experts cannot help but wonder if a psychotic episode drove Mine An Ener to do what she did. Police in St. Paul, Minn., say the 38-year-old Villanova University…

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