'Months after giving birth I was diagnosed with Postpartum Psychosis - I was lucky to survive'
ok.co.ukRuth Hanna, 40, was loving life in Spain and settling into motherhood when she began worrying obsessively about her baby boy’s health and believing she had somehow harmed him.
Alarmingly, she had developed Postpartum Psychosis (PPP), a condition which very nearly cost her her life. As we mark Parent Mental Health Day, she opens up to OK!
about her frightening experience, how ECT (known as ‘electric shock’ treatment) saved her and why she is raising awareness. “My son Koa was born in September 2019 and after a straightforward pregnancy, I felt really lucky.
But in February, I stopped sleeping and suddenly became obsessed with the fear that Koa was sick. I’d fixate on little things, like whether his fingers were too curled in, and worried he wasn’t developing properly.
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