The lived experience of postpartum depression and psychosis in women: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics

World Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 24(1), P. 32 - 45

Published: Jan. 15, 2025

This is the first bottom‐up review of lived experience postpartum depression and psychosis in women. The study has been co‐designed, co‐conducted co‐written by experts academics, drawing on first‐person accounts within outside medical field. material initially identified was shared with all participants a cloud‐based system, discussed across research team, enriched phenomenological insights. subjective world characterized sudden onset (“being hit ton bricks”), unbearable loneliness sadness that are often suffered silence, inability to feel positive emotions, grieving over loss self, feelings being bad mothers (haunted suffocating burden guilt due that), concentrate, lack control thoughts (“feeling like tightrope walker without emotions”), insecurity (up needing be nurtured mothered themselves), death (“contemplating as glimmer hope escape living nightmare”). In addition these themes, difficulty articulating brain centrifuge”); perceptual abnormalities unusual beliefs disrupting sense personal unity (with, few cases, harming themselves or their baby, so women may they “sinking depths hell”); losing trust (“ploughing through fog safety”), stripping down relationships. Much isolation, disorientation experienced conditions relates sociocultural family environments, especially gulf between how web norms expectations surrounding motherhood. most stigma related knowledge what are. Stigma core drivers impacting health care terms seeking professional help, accessing mental services, receiving pharmacological psychological treatments. narratives described this paper should inform clinical practice, public education. brings voice unspoken unheard, fosters relational connections which different mothering experiences expressed understood. vital challenging negative attitudes towards psychosis, providing supportive experiencing such pervasive psychiatric disorders at critical, fragile time lives.

Language: Английский

“It shows you your fears”: a qualitative analysis and psychoanalytic interpretation of the psychotic content of postpartum psychosis

Psychosis, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 14

Published: April 21, 2025

Language: Английский

Barriers to care and treatment experiences among individuals with postpartum psychosis

Archives of Women s Mental Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(4), P. 637 - 647

Published: Feb. 23, 2024

Language: Английский