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Motherhood, mania and me

‘She’s not my baby’: How giving birth triggered a young woman’s mental health crisis, leaving her desperate, delusional and detached from reality.
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‘She’s not my baby’: How giving birth triggered a woman’s mental health crisis, leaving her desperate, delusional and detached from reality. Chebet found herself on a journey of illness and recovery, after her ‘baby blues’ morphed into something much darker. How do women embrace motherhood after postpartum psychosis?
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