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What are the symptoms of puerperal psychosis?
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Needs treatment!: Symptoms, usually developing during the first 3 postpartum weeks (as soon as 1 to 2 days after childbirth), include: feeling removed from baby, other people, and surroundings. disturbed sleep, even when baby sleeping, confused and disorganized thinking, mood swings and bizarre behavior, agitation or restlessness, hallucinations, often involving sight, smell, hearing, or touch, delusional thinking.
Answered 9/6/2019
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