“Sometimes you see a change in functioning, people can get very withdrawn, their thinking may look strange, they may not be themselves, but you have no idea what else is going on and because it can happen so suddenly, that’s what makes it so potentially difficult to intervene quickly. “Often in postpartum psychosis, women have delusional thoughts but they’re very quiet about it, so they’re often not sharing what they’re thinking so the family doesn’t necessarily know,” Meltzer-Brody said. Starting in 1999, she struggled with depression and psychosis, but had generally been happy with her husband Rusty Yates. Meltzer-Brody noted that postpartum psychosis can be hard to pick up on. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, a perinatal psychiatrist. Andrea was a wonderful mother, Yates said. “I think the most important thing to realize is that no mother would ever want to go through this, no family would ever want to go through this, and it’s really out of their control when they have psychotic thoughts and have a break from reality and you end up having these kinds of terrible things happen,” said Dr. Russell Rusty Yates, Andrea’s former husband, joined CUOMO on Monday to discuss postpartum psychosis and the difficulty in spotting the signs of it, as was the case with him and his wife. Symptoms include delusions, hallucinations and paranoia, and it can lead to thoughts of suicide or homicide. She believed that drowning them was the only way to save them from the devil. In June 2001, she drowned each one of her children: 7-year-old Noah, 5-year-old John, 3-year-old Paul, 2-year-old Luke and 6-month-old Mary. Postpartum psychosis is an extreme mood disorder that occurs in one or two out of every 1,000 deliveries, according to Postpartum Support International. From the beginning, Rusty Yates had always been supportive of Andrea, who suffered from postpartum psychosis.
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