Comments on: What if we faced the truth about Andrea Yates? http://www.askdrjones.com/in-the-media/what-if-we-faced-the-truth-about-andrea-yates/ Ask Dr. Jones Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:14:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Teresa Twomey http://www.askdrjones.com/in-the-media/what-if-we-faced-the-truth-about-andrea-yates/#comment-8863 Teresa Twomey Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:30:20 +0000 http://www.askdrjones.com/2006/07/29/what-if-we-faced-the-truth-about-andrea-yates/#comment-8863 As a woman who suffered and recovered from postpartum psychosis, I appreciate your posts on this. I wanted to add: I often hear people criticise Rusty Yates - saying: He had her living in a bus - he had her homeschooling five kids.. etc. One of the biggest problems I see to this popular blaming of Rusty is that it takes the focus off of the bigger issues: #1 Postpartum psychosis is not a result of living conditions - it is primarily a biological issue, and #2 Our medical community is failing mothers like Andrea - like me (I did not receive treatment for PPP OR PPD - and I had both, plus PP-OCD and PP-PTSD.) Thanks for bringing more attention to that. sincerely, Teresa Twomey As a woman who suffered and recovered from postpartum psychosis, I appreciate your posts on this.
I wanted to add: I often hear people criticise Rusty Yates - saying: He had her living in a bus - he had her homeschooling five kids.. etc. One of the biggest problems I see to this popular blaming of Rusty is that it takes the focus off of the bigger issues: #1 Postpartum psychosis is not a result of living conditions - it is primarily a biological issue, and #2 Our medical community is failing mothers like Andrea - like me (I did not receive treatment for PPP OR PPD - and I had both, plus PP-OCD and PP-PTSD.)
Thanks for bringing more attention to that.
sincerely,

Teresa Twomey

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