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Pat is a 52-year-old mother of three from California. In this chapter she discusses her experience with sleep deprivation leading to postpartum psychosis, suicidality, hospitalizations, and what it took to be correctly diagnosed with bipolar disorder years later.
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Greene, P. (2014). Motherhood Saved My Life. In: Benders-Hadi, N., Barber, M. (eds) Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01318-3_27
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