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“I would find out much later that the police officers and paramedics had directed Michael to take our son to the emergency room for drug testing. Despite Michael and Dianne’s assurances otherwise, the paramedics had concluded I was most likely under the influence of an illicit drug that might harm my son. Drug -induced psychosis was something they saw all too often and had no other explanation for my behavior.”
This is a quote from Jennifer Moyer’s book – A Mother’s Climb out of Darkness – She wrote this book because she is on a mission to bring hope and inspiration to families facing mental health challenges.
Jennifer gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy. Life was good, until it was not.
What could have caused a healthy newly postpartum mother to become so delusional? What could have caused her to go from happy and tired new mommy to someone who had to be forcibly admitted to the hospital?
During our interview, Jennifer tells us how her life changed drastically just 8 weeks after giving birth. She told me that out of nowhere she began to have a sudden fear that someone was trying to harm her and take her baby. She was afraid to talk about these fears to her husband. They kept her up for 3 nights in a row. Without any sleep period, she became delusional, was hospitalized and here is where her story becomes very scary.
Listen to the struggles that Jennifer went through after being diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. Follow her on her journey to healing and recovery from a very dark period in her life.
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