One in five mothers suffers from a mental health problem, such as depression, anxiety or psychosis, during pregnancy or in the first year after childbirth
When Kathryn Grant found out she was pregnant with her first child, she was ecstatic. But nine months later, after a difficult labour, she developed a severe psychosis and needed hospitalised for several months.
“The hallucinations and delusions that I suffered were horrific,” she says. “Psychosis for me was all around death and the end of the world. I hallucinated that I was being burned alive.”
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