Basically I have always known that she was mentally ill (due to growing up with her behavior, but now I know that she was originally ‘normal’ before and only became mentally ill after suffering postnatal depression, it has now prompted me to investigate what is actually wrong with her.

She has expressed the following symptoms:
- Fatigue; she’s always tired, though she is also anaemic, though I don’t know whether she has always had this
- Paranoia; most of the time my mum is strangely happy and ditzy (sometimes in a child-like way) however sometimes some form of trigger (a random person usually: there is no links between the people who have set her off in the past), will walk past and her mood will instantly change, she will become paranoid and possesive, convinced the person is some how trying to hurt me or my sister. She will just stare at them, with a blank look across her face, sometimes she may approach them (which can be quite awkward) and prefers to be left alone by my family at this point; she has snapped at us in the past
- She also talks (mumbles) to herself quite frequently, especially about certain subjects, such as past boyfriends and referring to myself and my sister as “snow white princesses”

From talking to my dad, I found out she suffered from postnatal depression when I was born due to stress: I was born a month early and at the time she suffered from salmonella poisoning. She behaved strangely as well, she used to stay up during the middle of the night and stare outside the window, and at one point she accused my dad of trying to kill her and that she saw my dad’s dead father: when she was sectioned for a week (during to the postnatal depression), she claimed he was her nurse.

Her symptoms are nowhere near as bad as that today: she is actually getting a lot better, where by she mumbles less to herself and seems to be less paranoid now me and my sister are growing up and moving out, however I still want to try and get my head around what is wrong with her.

In the past I have done various research with her symptoms, but everytime I still seem to be coming to dead ends (all the websites and books I have looked through seem to have more extreme symptoms: for example, bipolar disorder and schizophernia)

Please can someone help me discover what is wrong with her :)
- Infinite amount of cookies.

Thank You.

Sparky.
Thanks Lila :)
I wish I could, but my mum unfortunately refuses to acknowledge she has a mental illness, so I don’t think she would ever see one.

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