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World Service,14 Oct 2023,17 mins

Motherhood, mania and me (Radio version)

The Comb

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‘She’s not my baby’: How giving birth triggered a woman’s mental health crisis, leaving her desperate, delusional and detached from reality. Chebet found herself on a journey of illness and recovery, after her ‘baby blues’ morphed into something much darker. How do women embrace motherhood after postpartum psychosis? This is a shortened radio version of this episode - to hear the full-length version, visit bbc.worldservice.com/thecomb

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