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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The good thing about him putting out those tweets is that in the case he's not okay it's been brought to light. If that's the case hopefully the people in his inner circle can steer him in the direction of getting any help he or the mother may need.
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Postpartum depression/psychosis can cause these types of total mental breakdowns. They are very serious because of the potential risk of harm to the child and may require immediate medical intervention and separation of child and parent. This without previous history of depression and other concerns. The good thing is that it's generally temporary and not long lasting.
I believe that's what Deluxe Mustache and Cali were alluding to. The potential for something like this is always there for new/recent parents. This is perhaps in my mind a lot more being a recent parent and getting ready for a second. If my wife started acting bizarrely and disappeared for a long period of time with a newborn without communicating with me, I'd freak the hell out too.
Hopefully I am not putting words in their mouths, but I felt like they weren't trying to shoot down the mental health comments of others. They were trying to offer a suggestion of a potential alternative that is in the same line of thinking as those posters, but far more reigned in than a full blown mental breakdown suggestion that some were making. They were suggesting that what seems illogical to some of you might have a fully logical explanation that encompasses all the information at this time. I felt like they were making parallels, but stopped short of saying this is the exact case for this scenario.
There's a difference between garden variety post baby blues and postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. In a postpartum depression/psychosis scenario, the parent can suddenly start behaving erratically with no prior history and harm/kill the baby and themselves.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/syc-20376617