New Kiwi mum Jody Orme shares her harrowing experience with postnatal psychosis soon after her son was born in Australia. Six weeks after my son was born I had no idea I would have him taken away from me or that I would be admitted to a high-dependency psychiatric ward. I had never heard of postnatal psychosis (PNP), neither had my husband, family or anyone I spoke to about it. It came on suddenly and was extremely severe. When my husband Cameron and I found out we were pregnant we were over the moon. We nicknamed him Willy as soon as we found out we were having a boy and knew we would call him William after his grandfather and great-great grandfather. After a long and...
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