Woman released 1 yr after killing her newborn due to PND

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Really tragic story. The woman burnt her flat down with the LO inside. She had been suffering from severe PND and hadn't received any support or been properly diagnosed.

Did anyone see the section on GMTV this morning on the subject?

I have found, over the years, talking to people that PND takes many many different forms ... there aren't just certain symptoms that can be ticked off a box (I came out OK in the Edinburgh test IIRC but was a nutter none the less).
I didn't want to harm myself or my baby but when I went off to my 6 week check, leaving DS with DH, I came out of the hospital, found a phone box. I phoned DH and said that seeing as I had his car I wasn't coming home. Ever. I told him not to come looking for me, that he would be a great father to DS, to make sure DS knew I loved him. I was deadly serious. Was all prepared to do a Thelma and Louise on my own. After driving round aimlessly crying for an hour or so I found myself on my sister's doorstep.

I met a woman with Puerpal Psychosis who didn't look her baby in the eye for the first year of his life because she was convinced he was the devil and if she looked him in the eye she would die. And if she died then he would die. So she didn't look at him. Poor woman.

The people who let this lady in the news go to those lengths need stringing up IMO

i have had PND in different forms,with my 1st it was that i cried all the time,couldnt see the point in living,thought ds1 would be better off without me etc.when i had ds2 i went loopy after,i didnt eat,i just used to smoke and drink coffee,and sleep about 3 hours a night,i was anxious and paranoid all the time.i couldnt stay in the house,i used to walk around the streets all day.

i have met many adults in homeless shelters and mental health drop-ins when i was doing voluntary work,who had awful childhoods with mothers who regularly told them they didnt love them and never wanted them etc.at the time i thought these women must have been plain evil but knowing alot more about PND now i wonder if that was the result of years of untreated depression?