Rachel Calof's Story: Postpartum Psychosis in the Early 1900s - Postpartum Progress

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Rachel Calof's Story: Postpartum Psychosis in the Early 1900s - Postpartum Progress

Postpartum Progress reader Alison S. sent me this lovely email, and I asked her if I could post it here to share it with you. She said she stumbled across a memoir that she felt was perfect proof that postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are not illnesses of spoiled, Western women ... It's a thin book called "Rachel Calof's Story." It is the memoirs of a Jewish Russian immigrant to North Dakota. She was an orphan, and came to the U.S. in 1894. In 1936, at the age of 60, she s

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Tags: Depression, Postpartum Depression, Disease and Condition, Women's Health