What families should know about postpartum psychosis

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The article explains postpartum psychosis, a severe mental health condition that has received attention following the Lindsay Clancy case. It notes that the condition is not listed as a standalone category in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM.

It's no wonder most people hadn't heard much about postpartum psychosis until it entered the news ecosystem in tragic fashion this year with the Lindsay Clancy case. Despite its severity, the illness isn't recognized as a standalone category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)—the guidebook published by the American Psychiatric Association for classifying everything from anxiety and depression to obsessive-compulsive and trauma-related disorders.