Postpartum psychosis: Psychiatrist explains rarity, severity | CUOMO

[@gnlilu6972]

I went through post partum depression. It was the most dark and terrifying feeling to experience. I felt that I was suffering. People judge without knowing is a real condition. I remember that I got help. That is 💯 true. I didn't talk to anyone for a year. It took me a year to get help. It happened after a miscarriage. I felt guilty for losing my baby. I remember feeling pain, a lot of emotional pain. I understand that people may not agree with me, but I have a lot of empathy for that Duxbury mom. I also feel the loss of the children. This news has affected me a lot.

[@nadagabri5783]

U went thru pp after a miscarriage… right🙄

[@Peacenluv.c]

I think a lot of moms do. I know I’m just devastated at the whole situation. I feel it could happen to anyone. And I’m sorry you went through that. ❤

[@ashleyc649]

This has to be said, Andrea Yates’ psychiatrist told Rusty that they shouldn’t have anymore babies after baby #4, and that another baby would guarantee a future extreme psychotic episode, and then they get pregnant with the 5th baby anyway. The 5th baby eventually lead to the drowning. Why on earth did they have that 5th baby after they were advised not to?

[@erinwickware8066]

I had psychosis a few months ago from bipolar disorder. It’s like being in a trance. You feel like you’re having a nightmare but you know you’re not asleep. Just think of the craziest nightmares you’ve ever had and all the horror movies you’ve ever seen and imagine you’re really living them. I saw this monster/alien woman telling me to shhhh. Heard voices telling me I was the antichrist and I was going to hell. Saw someone I knew who had died too. I could go on. I wish I had known what psychosis was then maybe I wouldn’t have been scared out of my freaking skull.

[@dag118]

It's not that rare! We just don't talk about it. My mother spent 6 months in hospital psych ward after my brother was born, in 1953

[@nishadh366]

May I ask what was happening to her?

[@rinyui2935]

postpartum psychosis IS rare. PPD (depression) isn't as rare. I'm sorry ur mother went through tht, it must've been very diddicult for her

[@rinyui2935]

​@@nishadh366 she had post partum psychosis, a very severe mental illness some women go through after giving birth. it's rare but when it happens, it's imperative to get help bc this can happen. they hallucinate, have depression, delusions, etc.

[@angelarich8455]

Now they don’t hospitalize you for it is the problem

[@janedoe3648]

​@@rinyui2935 but suicide is leading cause of maternal death. Related probably usually to PPD

[@ladybug947]

Rusty is partly responsible for continuing to persuade her to have kids

[@gloriamcdonough987]

Good evening Mr CUOMO. Thank you so much for bringing some attention to this matter. I am sad 😞 about this family situation, it’s heartbreaking💔the pain and suffering of this family and beloved ones can’t be ignored. I am a very lucky mother of 4 amazing young adults. I was very fortunate that I had never experienced anything like this horrible illness😞and my heart goes out to the hopeless mothers who are suffering in silence😞this illness that takes away a woman’s ability to access joy…👩‍🍼right at the time she needs it the most. It’s not talked about enough. It needs to be.

[@DroneStrike1776]

He should bring attention to what women was accusing him and his brother. He's a scumbag.

[@1014-m6s]

She was never diagnosed with PPD. You did forget to mention that.

[@petadoptionsnetwork2667]

I didn't think I could like Chris Cuomo less, until I watched this video. Clearly it is he, not "society" that "can't wrap their head around PPP or how a husband can forgive". More than ANYONE, this sweet, loving, young mother deserves our prayers - not condemnation. This is something that happened to her. She had no control over the intrusive thoughts playing tricks with her mind. That's what Psychosis is and does. If anyone deserves some accountability, it's her doctor, psychiatrist, and the mental health hospital that discharged her in early January. She was desperate for help, and all she got was a fistfull of pills that were not helping, and, in fact, making her feel worse, and a day program obviously delivered online, that clearly wasn't enough. They could have tried ECT, which instantly rewires the brain in cases of intractible severe depression. There is also a treatment that helps to balance levels of Estrogen, the post-partum depletion of which is thought to cause this horrible illness. I hate to see these news stations feeding off of this poor family's tragedy. Chris, you're an A**H***! I won't be watching Newsmax, now that I know they have hired you. You're a sad excuse for a journalist, if not a human being.

[@d8bn]

So....what causes it? Having children? Can the same be said for dads who up and kill their kids too?

[@Peacenluv.c]

No, I don’t think it’s the same for dads. Women go through a lot during pregnancy. Hormones change, everything changes.

[@d8bn]

@@Peacenluv.c Thank you. It's hard to imagine hormones can lead a person to kill, although testosterone enhances aggression. Part of me wonders if it's also a lack of support and loss of sleep. Having one child is hard enough, let alone 3 and also trying to work - that's just too much. I hope she speaks about what led her to do those horrible acts so we can learn and help mothers more.

[@rinyui2935]

@@d8bn i doubt it's tht bc many women go through the hardships of motherhood with loss of sleep and lack of support. PPD is very much rare (thankfully) and no one for sure knows what causes it. it is treatable but I'm assuming it's expensive bc the women can't be left alone with kids or by themselves. i think we just need to realize how serious this is and hopefully the gov and health insurance takes it more seriously.

[@theac.8125]

Postpartum Psychosis is a misfiring of chemicals and hormones inside the brain that causes a detachment from reality. There's a lot of chemical changes inside a woman's brain during pregnancy, and particularly, after pregnancy. In rare cases, this can cause PPP which is considered an emergency mental health crisis.

[@Daisy_Dobby]

@Ismellfishallaround fish you're dum-b as hell

[@Latenightsnacker14]

No how could this be just psychotic?! She pre planned this ?! This was longer before this even happened .

[@Tamara-id1pe]

Delusions and hallucinations are real to the person experiencing them, and they can lead an elaborate plan to do something this horrific.

[@Latenightsnacker14]

@Tamara you may be right in some circumstances , but for this one she had been distant from her other children for some time now , and before her last birth , the fact that she still went through a whole pregnancy , birthed and then blamed the after birth psychosis on her absolutely disgusting choice that she tried to go through with .

[@nadagabri5783]

Strangling 3 children takes a LOT of energy - these kids were not babies - death by strangulations takes a good amount of time 2 - & your looking right in their eyes.

[@Tamara-id1pe]

So someone must be experiencing extreme psychosis to strangle their children? Yes, I agree

[@nadagabri5783]

@@Tamara-id1pe glad she is charged with first degree murder. If a father had strangled all 3 children with exercise bands as she did , all these excuses / explanations would be non existent. A Women does it = a million sympathetic excuses

[@Salty-cracker68]

How long can postpartum depression last? Postpartum psychosis?

[@adelekelly455]

I had postpartum depression for 2 years...I had psychosis for 3months. It's usually shorter for most people. Depends on how well you respond to medicines etc.

[@macriggland6526]

tfw you realize you have to raise children in america

[@Hartleymolly]

We all experience postpartum, we give our child life, our entire brain chemistry takes up to 2 years, to go back to normal. Why all women’s brains are not studied, is baffling. It’s 2023.

[@RAWALITY]

Roe vs wade bypass🤔

[@thesummerland6165]

yes, mental illness is real, but it doesn't excuse husband, her as a nurse and her treatment team to not being responsible when you are aware of a diagnosis and leaving children in harm's way...also why keep having children when you are susceptible to it??? Irresponsible, Yates and her husband also were warned to not have more children, but they continued

[@janetjohnson7279]

🙏🙏😥😥🙏🙏

[@kirstenviers7928]

I stopped listening to Bronco's games after they fired Coach Hackett on Christmas day. I havn't corresponded with them either, you know why? They fired him on Christmas Day. I still like the players though, and the Walton/Penner combination has some intrige to me and they know why. I am a Christian, and as I see it your job is to bear your cross not please me; and, as I see it, you and Coach Hackett are good men just a little younger than me in getting screwed by mental healthcare practitioners. I might also have more years of experience with them since I saw my first one in 1992 for an eating disorder a pre-med student taught me how to endure (eat icecream before you throw your dinner up.) Add in my psychology degree and I can really infuriate a psychologist and make a psychiatrist want to up the meds on everyone in her roledex and who knows me. Have you heard it through the grapevine yet, I'm at war here in Colorado over this junk. The illicit market at least will "stay organic with me," but nothing beats a pure diet where even one drop of coffee can make the staff ask me for an autograph. But let's go a little deeper with this play, since I've given you a Peyton Manning "Brown," audible in the last segment. In a prior post, some days ago, I asked you to consider Leviticus 20:13 with the LGBTQ flag, now I want you to consider it with a woman who has five little boys; and, a husband who may have thought he was doing enough. He may have been, and she may have been just as willing to do the role playing all of us little girls were taught and saw our grandmother's succeed at while our mother's became prostitutes, alcoholics, and greedy coveting mistresses of the stars while riding us. My mom always thought she was the ballerina Tom Selleck should've married instead, but I digress. Sexual immorality is a capital offense. We live in a society that is bound and determined to kill something but they haven't been able to make a law with a picture next to it yet so people can feel free to do it. Dan Abrams did a good job of ferreting out another option to consider in Jim Crow laws: "Did they go Jim Crow so they could act like the race war here in the U.S. between black and white would resolve the Israeli v. Palestinian conflict?" What is up with the government saying they will always back Israel when Jesus is the king? Wouldn't that be one hell of an excuse to keep being a bigot, to claim you brought peace to the middle east by showing how well to men can point a finger?

[@Eric-yp9nc]

did you NOT take your medications the morning you wrote this RANT???

[@kirstenviers7928]

@@Eric-yp9nc I see where your loyalties lie, whoever has the drugs will win your heart, mind, and soul. Your body is probably already trashed knowing what America defines as healthy. Should be a fun future for you as the legit market asks you to try LGBTQ for a spell and the illicit tells you you're ready for fentanyl. Good luck. I'll be happy to die at old age, which in some centuries I'm the equivalent of 109.

[@jackchop1576]

The weirdest part is that depression is the mental disorder statistically associated with higher rates of arrests for violent crime. Why is everyone avoiding that fact?

[@valerierodger7700]

The weirdest part is that you take a study that doesn’t show any causal link and think it is somehow significant. _One_ study in _one_ country (Sweden - hardly generalizable!) found a _correlation_ between _convictions_ and depression. Note correlation, not causation. Are you somehow surprised that the same factors which drive criminality might also cause a person to be depressed? Also note, it’s about how many people were _convicted_ of crimes, as opposed to _committed_ violent crimes - the depression may cause people to be more likely to plead guilty or less likely to be able to mount a strong defence.

[@SpiritualDivine]

Oh look..another man calling women "crazy" 🙄

[@valerierodger7700]

She absolutely was what we colloquially call crazy. Would it make you feel better if he stuck to the term mentally ill? That’s such a mild term for somebody who is suffering a complete break from reality.

[@nadagabri5783]

Whoa she look like a man

[@CORLEONESPORTS97]

i think all too often we make excuses for people, hold people accountable for actions, could be she didnt want responsibility to take care of her kids anymore... excuses excuses

[@Peacenluv.c]

You are very ignorant

[@rinyui2935]

if there is any reason a murder of kids should be plead with insanity,, it's this. did u not listen to what the psychiatrist was saying? she was having hallucinations, delusions, depression, etc.. this is not an excuse and she was already going through it for sometime.