Brief Psychosis

Has anyone every experienced or come across brief psychosis, started a couple of hours after birth and only lasted less than 24 hours?

[Lilybeth Volunteer]

Hello LisaP1

Thank you for posting this question and welcome to the forum. I haven't heard of such a brief psychosis but I'm sure there will be other mums here who can help. Is this something you had yourself? My psychoses lasted longer than 24 hours and were very frightening at the time.

Take care.

[Mims2014]

No never experienced this or heard of before. I kept coming in and out of psychosis and it lasted about 2 weeks x

[DEb12W]

I definitely had a dodgy day when it's normal to get the baby blues, then seemed to be ok until the 6 week mark when all went bad again. I guess I would be cautious that it having passed, there may still be a risk of recurring.

[Kat_at_APP Volunteer]

Hi there - I experienced a few hours psychotic episode as you describe. We thought that was it, but around a week later I was in full blown PP... In my experience it doesn't tend to just go away after an hour or two, sadly!

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After a day of being passed to pillar to post in the maternity hospital ( the level of awareness the nurses had on this type of this is diabolical) in what I can only describe as a locked in nightmare, no one new what was happening to me, Ley alone me, after a day off severe deleruim and all he rest I tried to jump out the window, had to be pinned down and in the end they called in for help and I was taking to a psychiatric unit where I was sidadted and when I woke up it was as if I had just snapped out of what ever happened to me, I can remember everything which my partner and mum and dad didn't think I would and they truly though that was me going to be in the unit for weeks, what ever made my mind snap back is nothing short of a miracle. my thought process all day was I needed to convince the people around me to kill me so I can get back to normal, I needed to die and as scary tragic as that sounds that's what I was trying to do, as I said Iv never had any history of mental Illness before, I didn't need any further medication just kept a close eye on from my health visitor. My notes are absolute shambles. The nurses kept changing shifts and nothing was being passed on, my poor partner and mum were at there wits end if it wasn't for my partner demanding more helped were called for I am not sure what would have happened to me. Still no one realky gave me answers to what happened to me, I had infection and they put it down to deleruim. Until I contacted APP with my story I then discovered it was possibly brief psychosis.

It's never far from my mind and it took me a looooooong time to not be thinking about it everyday. I think it's just because I got no proper answers and it's such a rare thing to have happened.

Thanks for all your replies.

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[Jenny_at_APP Partner]

Hi LisaP1,

That sounds like a very traumatic experience and I imagine the not knowing or having answers has made it all the more difficult to come to terms with.

How long ago did this happen?

I'm glad you've been well since.

Look after yourself x

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Thank you

It will be 2 years in September.

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[BronSyd]

I think there's such a thing as sleep deprivation psychosis. Had you not slept for a few days? If that's the case if you were medicated to sleep it makes sense that it would cease after you wake up. Otherwise I'm not sure.

[jamie1975]

I don't know about psychosis but I had depersonalization with depression and anxiety. After giving birth. It was very scary didn't know what was happening to me. Thought I was going crazy. Kept calling Dr said it was baby blues it will go away. This is a very long story don't have time right now I only recently found out about it all this time I didn't know there was a name for it or that anyone every experienced it was shocked to read other people's experience. They were describing exactly how I felt.! I'll write more when u have more time. Don't know how this relates to psychosis though bye for now