That Aldi thing

[Zealot]

How old are these twins now?

They turned 1 about 2 weeks ago.

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[archibaldcrane]

New babies are so much fucking work and so stressful as it is, I can't imagine having to worry about my wife being inadequate to the task or actively harmful to them. I suppose it helps that he doesn't have a 9 to 5 to juggle as well.

[archibaldcrane]

Results

The onset of puerperal psychosis occurs in the first 1–4 weeks after childbirth. The data suggest that postpartum psychosis is an overt presentation of bipolar disorder that is timed to coincide with tremendous hormonal shifts after delivery. The patient develops frank psychosis, cognitive impairment, and grossly disorganized behavior that represent a complete change from previous functioning. These perturbations, in combination with lapsed insight into her illness and symptoms, can lead to devastating consequences in which the safety and well-being of the affected mother and her offspring are jeopardized. Therefore, careful and repeated assessment of the mothers’ symptoms, safety, and functional capacity is imperative. Treatment is dictated by the underlying diagnosis, bipolar disorder, and guided by the symptom acuity, patient’s response to past treatments, drug tolerability, and breastfeeding preference. The somatic therapies include antimanic agents, atypical antipsychotic medications, and ECT. Estrogen prophylaxis remains purely investigational.

Conclusions

The rapid and accurate diagnosis of postpartum psychosis is essential to expedite appropriate treatment and to allow for quick, full recovery, prevention of future episodes, and reduction of risk to the mother and her children and family.

Never heard it described as an activation of latent bipolar, interesting.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109493/

Fuckin wild:

CASE HISTORY
Ms. A. is a 27-year-old physician who delivered her baby 7 days before evaluation at a teaching hospital. She underwent an uncomplicated delivery, and her baby boy was full term and healthy. This was a planned pregnancy, and the family was excited about the birth. Within 2 days of delivery, she told her husband that she thought he was poisoning her food and that the baby was staring at her strangely. She thought she smelled horses and heard them galloping out-side her bedroom. She could not fall asleep even when her mother came to the house to care for their newborn and allow the patient to rest. At home, Ms. A. was able to sleep only 2–3 hours nightly. Her husband noticed that she would gaze out the windows in their apartment for hours without explanation. She had not bathed for 6 days. She required much help in simple tasks, such as diapering her baby. She expressed guilt about being a terrible mother and felt she did not deserve to have her family. She told her husband that she heard voices commanding her to go with her infant son to the subway and jump in front of the train; these hallucinations terrified her and became stronger after she returned home from the hospital. The husband became very concerned and brought his wife to the emergency room.

[Zealot]

My brother tried to get help for her as soon as it started and she did see a psychiatrist who prescribed her medication. But her dad is a doctor so he leaned heavily on his opinions - turns out the dad couldn't give a shit about her really, the family is the definition of New England WASP where if a problem can't be made to go away then you just don't talk about it. So that was a mistake he didn't realize until it was too late.

Knowing some of her past history and observing her behavior in person, I would absolutely believe someone if they told me bipolar disorder was an existing underlying condition in this case.

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[Zealot]

New babies are so much fucking work and so stressful as it is, I can't imagine having to worry about my wife being inadequate to the task or actively harmful to them. I suppose it helps that he doesn't have a 9 to 5 to juggle as well.

Since this started he's lost over 30lbs. At first he just wasn't eating because he was sad his wife was divorcing him but now he's in such a heightened state of alarm at all times that he's always got adrenaline going and his body is burning itself up.

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[archibaldcrane]

I worked on a show about a family who had quintuplets (this was back when I just had two kids) and I literally had an actual panic attack on my first day watching footage of them caring for that many 3 year olds.

There was a big company meeting and I had to sit there and listen to people talk and kept telling myself that nobody could tell that I was actually freaking the fuck out inside. Never had a panic attack before, shit sucked lol

[Zealot]

Just got a text from him that she took their son and left the house without telling him, came back and she'd gotten his first haircut without him.

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[Salodin]

Damn...

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[Milkster]

He's had an attorney for awhile now. I've had to walk him through the process of finding one and re-tell him everything she says, and also compose all the questions he asks before any of their meetings or calls because he's tied up in such an emotional knot over this he can't keep anything straight. He's straight up told me Iraq wasn't as stressful as this has been.

There is a settlement agreement between them but it hasn't been finalized, if they reach terms they both agree on she'll leave the house and at least he'll have that.

It would be great if she got psychological help, but who's going to make her? She's on anti-psychotics but her drinking negates the effects. My brother is willing to pay to force a psych evaluation, but people pass those all the time. Not only that, but multiple attorneys have told him that the judges where he live overwhelmingly favor joint custody of children and won't entertain the idea that kids aren't better off without both parents around.

I forgot, one of the reasons on her order of protection that got him thrown out of the house for a week was that he has hidden guns in the house and she's worried he'll try to kill her. He hid the guns (and removed the ammo and firing pins) after she attempted suicide.

So we can know all these things and we can observe that she's unbalanced, but without a major public breakdown or DUI or even an incident where one of the babies is hurt under her care, she's getting some degree of custody (that she doesn't actually want except she thinks it would make her look bad if she didn't).

I agree that trying to make her lose her job isn't a good solution, but they apparently like her so if they told her they wanted to transfer her somewhere and she had to pick between her job or her kids, odds are she would choose her job and sign custody over to my brother.

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Has he tried getting her arrested just by submitting all the evidence of her actively committing adulatory and also in the presence of the kids and hurting them.

[Milkster]

I have questions: sounds like she's always been some level of unstable and now has fully gone off the deep end? Why did he marry her and have multiple kids with her?

Are any of you close enough to stay with him to help be a witness record or assist with the children?

My brother tried to get help for her as soon as it started and she did see a psychiatrist who prescribed her medication. But her dad is a doctor so he leaned heavily on his opinions - turns out the dad couldn't give a shit about her really, the family is the definition of New England WASP where if a problem can't be made to go away then you just don't talk about it. So that was a mistake he didn't realize until it was too late.

Knowing some of her past history and observing her behavior in person, I would absolutely believe someone if they told me bipolar disorder was an existing underlying condition in this case.

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Oh btw all y'all can go fuck yourselves.

Bitches.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109493/

[Demosthenes]

Oh btw all y'all can go fuck yourselves.

Bitches.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109493/

It would be great if you could refrain from autofellation for even 5 mins.

[Day]

congrats on your google search

[Milkster]

Lol.

[Milkster]

Anyway the only people that have provided worthwhile advice and information have been AG and Archi, if you're using this thread as a means to vent that's awesome but please seek professional help in these matters and also moving forward emotionally, financially and physically, not random internet people.

[Day]

i hope they see this bro

[Fiye]

Why does Milkster always gotta start shit.

[Day]

fulfilling stereotypes is his day job i think

[Tokitoki]

I guess my only contribution to this/question would be if there was some way for him to show how much she drinks. Even if she doesn't have a DUI or some kind of drunk and disorderly charge, I'd think that if you were able to show how much she drinks and the risk she'd be neglectful to the kids it would help sway the judges to grant sole custody of the children to your brother.

Also, I agree with telling your sister to stop smoking at their house. That's fucking dumb considering she knows what's going on.

[Salodin]

Drug tests can tell, but only for a couple days after the drink. Good luck getting that a judge to coerce her into that though.

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[Tokitoki]

Yeah, think those can detect within 72 hours, but I'm not sure that would be enough to determine volume.

Was thinking more like receipts from a joint bank account showing excessive purchases at a liquor store or something, but I guess then you'd have to prove it was her somehow. I dunno, was just an idea. Not to mention alcoholics are surprisingly clever when it comes to getting alcohol, as are other addicts.

My mom used to have other people buy it for her, stash it outdoors, and do other shit so that we couldn't "prove" she had any alcohol.