I know majority are not aware:
So please share this post to educate people.
There is a medical condition called POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS.
In this condition,
A mother who has just delivered a baby can develop severe psychotic mental illness which makes the woman have serious paranoid delusional ideas about themselves, their partner or their baby.
If this condition is not quickly diagnosed and treated, the woman can kill herself, and kill the baby. It is a mental illness, it is not normal behaviour.
WHAT CAUSES POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS? There is no clear cause. But there are things that may increase the risk of a woman developing it. These are:
1. If the woman is from a family where other women have had psychosis, severe mental illness or specifically postpartum depression. It sometimes run in families.
2. If the woman herself has had it before, then it can happen again.
3. If the woman already has mental illness before the pregnancy which then got worsened during the pregnancy.
4. If the woman had sleep deprivation.
5. If the woman had severe stress during the pregnancy.
6. If the woman had a very severe traumatising or stressful birth/delivery for the baby.
7. Sometimes there’s no clear reason and it’s suspected to be due to hormone changes.
HOW TO DETECT POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS? There are usually signs to know. These include:
1. Confusion and disorientation.
2. Hearing voices that are not there.
3. Seeing things/people that are not there.
4. Referring to themselves as worthless, hopeless and useless. Suggesting it will be better if they never had the baby.
5. Wishing or stating desires to be dead.
6. Seeing their partner as someone else.
7. Staying away from the baby or referring to the baby as evil, bad, witch, demonic, or insinuating the baby should be killed.
8. Severe anxiety and agitation.
9. Severe inability to rest or sleep for days.
10. Having very erratic moods- crying, angry, upset, detached, irritated all the time.
11. Hallucinations, delusions and paranoia.
If you see any or all of these signs in a woman who has just had a baby, go straight to a hospital or get a doctor to see them the same day.
WHAT IS THE TREATMENT?
The treatment depends on the severity.
It may require hospital admission or home treatment with close monitoring.
The woman will need medications and mental health counselling/psychotherapy.
I know in Nigeria, we trivialise and minimise mental health, so not many people are aware of things like this.
A lot of mothers are labelled “witches” when they were suffering from postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis that can be treated if only we offer them urgent medical assessment and early treatment.
What the woman in this video shared here needs first of all is urgent psychiatric assessment and intervention- not a police cell. The police can investigate later but she needs her psychiatric state assessed and mental help offered immediately.
Please kindly share this post to help a family, a couple, and a mother out there. You never know who this information will benefit. Thank you.
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He doesn't see the problem in the story he's telling. How is the person whom you're paying next to nothing suppose to survive? The lifestyle he's talking about is built on exploitation.
In this season of prophetic declarations, don't go to sleep thinking that prophecies just happen o and you only just use them to decorate your TL. You need to go into a season of travail to give birth to the divine possibilities that God has loaded inside you.
Elijah went into a season of travail after hearing the sound of the abundance of rain.
We pray for God's guidance and protection always but you have a duty of extra care to stay alive and healthy, don't leave the work for God alone to do, avoid conflicts, make meaningful friends, drink water and mind your business.
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The Lord didn’t check who inside the house was worthy. He checked for blood on the doorposts.
None of us is worthy. Only the blood of Jesus can cover us.
I need you to LIVE!!!
Do it for yourself.
Do it for those who are rooting for you.
Do it for those who already wrote your obituary & expect you to give up. LIVE!!!
Doctor! There’s an emergency!
And immediately your brain has to switch from sleep mode to permutations. You immediately feel the adrenaline rush. Your heart beats faster, your palms sweaty. In that brief journey to the emergency room you’ve made a million calculations and
I CANNOT TELL YOU LOUDLY ENOUGH, DO NOT LET A CHIROPRACTOR NEAR YOUR GODDAMN NECK.
This message brought to you by a neurologist who manages Cervical Artery Dissection and their resulting STROKE.
See the number of Nigerians that are out rooting for Hilda without caring about where she’s 4rm
Hilda is Akwa Ibom.
Enioluwa (her hypeman) is Yoruba.
Charles Okocha is Igbo.
Dremo that performed 4 free is Yoruba too.
See, our problem in this country are divisive politicians.
Shame!!! Shame!!!!! Shame!!!!!!!!!! On all of you!!!!!!!!!! Shameeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you cannot win elections plain and fair against “a social media party”….you don’t deserve any respect!!!! And your end will come swiftly!!!!
Honestly if you support APC you’re complicit. I do not respect you. I don’t want you around me. There is no room for neutrality in this. This is blatant evil
Many of you tongue talking GenZ Christians pray very long and see no favour, miracles or progress. Your lack of basic courtesy or respect for human beings is the blocker here. God delivers answers through people but you drive them away with your lack of respect and manners.
I don’t mean to sound naive but why do politicians dread losing elections? I mean it’s a call to serve and solve problems. If the people say you’ve tried, you can leave, why do you want to stay by all means? Does your life depend on it? 🤔 where’s the honor? Where’s the shame?
You guys don’t get it. 😂
It is not Sanwo-Olu that is running for re-election.
It is an entire criminal institution and enterprise trying to retain power through him. He is just the figurehead.
Vote LP in Lagos from top to bottom.