Post Partum Psychosis in news TW graphic

A mom who beheaded baby had been diagnosed in January with PPP and was not supposed to be alone with the baby. This is what Andrea Yates had and she was supposed to be supervised.

I know we with mental illnesses are rarely dangerous but when you are told we might harm someone, please listen. These were tragedies that didn’t need to happen.

I think my family overreacted. They took me away from my children for a couple of weeks after a psychotic break. I wasn’t dangerous. But, I do understand they were trying to protect them.