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Clinical features

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Authoring team

  • mixed anxiety and depression state
  • may become hypomanic on rare occasions
  • labile mood
  • insomnia
  • delusions or hallucinations may occur
  • delusional ideas may involve the baby
  • suicidal ideas can occur which may include the baby

Differential diagnosis:

  • schizophrenia with hallucinations does occur occasionally in the post-natal period

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