9 hours Ago By Chloe W. Shakin
We’re taking a look back at some of our favourite and most popular Lifestyle stories of 2024 , giving you a chance to catch up on some of the great reading you might have missed this year. In this story from October, we take a look at the specialised wards called mother-and-baby units, where doctors treat postpartum psychosis while allowing women to keep caring for their children. The blood dripping from the bathroom faucet was the first sign that something was wrong.
A few days later, Alexandra Hardie saw cockroaches scuttle from beneath the bed. Soon, she noticed spiders crawling up the wall. One day in May 2016, four months after giving birth to her first child, Hardie began shouting that the devil was in the room.
She became so agitated that she smashed a bottle of red wine on the floor of her Edinburgh, Scotland, apartment. Her husband, James, called 999, Britain’s emergency number. He pinned his wife, who was threatening to harm herself, to the floor to prevent her from grabbing a kitchen knife.
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