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Me, my baby and psychosis: Jess and Matt's story
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Season 5 Episode 6
Jess and Matt had an excellent birth but then things started to go a bit weird, Jess just wasn't herself. Matt had been warned that women can be very affected by hormones after the birth, but this was extreme. It turned out that Jess was suffering from postpartum psychosis a mental illness that comes on just after having a baby. When baby Albert was taken in to hospital with jaundice it became clear that he wasn't the only one that was ill and Jess needed very specialist care which wasn't readily available...
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Help and support:
- Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) and APP forum
- Association for Post Natal Illness
- Mind: what is postpartum psychosis?
- PANDAS Foundation UK
- Royal College of Psychiatrists: postpartum psychosis
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Title: Nancy
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Title: Light Thought
Author: Kevin MacLeod
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Title: Evening Fall
Author: Kevin MacLeod
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Author: Phillip Gross
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