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Postpartum Psychosis & The Lack of Insight - Postpartum Progress

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I wanted to share this interesting exchange that occurred in the Comments section when I wrote this week about two recent, tragic instances of mothers killing their young children and the assumptions people make that every time a mother kills her child the act was related to postpartum psychosis or postpartum depression. The first comment came from someone calling themselves GuideMD: [according to a local article, the mother in Edmonton] "had shown signs of depression, but refused to get he

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