psychosis
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She added that while women with a history of bipolar disorder are more susceptible to postpartum psychosis, it can happen to anyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Postpartum depression occurs in 1 out of 10 women, and postpartum psychosis impacts mothers in 1 or 2 of every 1,000 births.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
With postpartum psychosis, which is considered a medical emergency, patients can experience mania, depression or a mixture of both.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Veerle Bergink, a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Mount Sinai Women's Mental Health Center, is among the people working diligently to get postpartum psychosis included in the DSM-5.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
But this episode was symptomatic: even his love for me involved extending the fabric of his psychosis and confabulation.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Psychiatrists and neurologists are increasingly joining forces to find and treat patients with autoimmune psychoses.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
He urged lawmakers to try again next year, this time adding specific treatment guidelines including recommended doses and protections for people with underlying psychoses.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
It is among recent attempts by lawmakers to make it easier to help individuals, many of them homeless, who are suffering from potentially life-threatening psychoses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2023
An Ireland finally capable of admitting to the ongoing psychoses, passivity and prejudices that still bind it today, even as it becomes, as O’Toole puts it, “one of the most globalized economies in the world.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
He also devoted a chapter to the psychoses of four chess masters, selected from the millions of normal people who’d played seriously over the years.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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