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Postpartum Psychosis

Jul 31, 2024 | headtopics.com | Laura Dockrill

📆 7/31/2024 9:34 AM📰 PsychToday⏱ Reading Time:76 sec. here3 min. at publisher📊 Quality Score:News: 34%Publisher: 51% United States Headlines News United States Latest News,United States HeadlinesPostpartum psychosis is a rare experience that occurs when a woman who has recently given birth experiences a psychotic episode. These episodes are characterized by a loss of touch with reality, which can include delusional beliefs, labile moods, hallucinations, and other symptoms. .
London Love Stories: An Evening with Laura Dockrill at Waterstones Piccadilly | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Jul 27, 2024 | waterstones.com | Laura Dockrill

We are delighted to offer a monthly series of Romance focused events to take place on the second Wednesday of every month. With a variety of events and many exciting authors in store, London Love Stories will be a yearlong celebration of everything love and literature can offer! Join us for an intimate book club-style evening with Laura Dockrill, hosted by Bethany Rutter, as we discuss her adult debut novel, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You.
Woman's Hour - Laura Dockrill, female surgical teams, Chinese #MeToo - BBC Sounds

Jun 19, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Laura Dockrill

Author Laura Dockrill on the thrills and heartache of first love.
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

Jun 17, 2024 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Laura Dockrill

It's the year 2000. I'm fourteen. I'm trying really hard to be a grunger right now. There were rumours the world was going to end. It hasn't as of yet but I still have reasons to believe that was true.
How I recovered from postpartum psychosis and reconnected with my son

Jun 15, 2024 | thetimes.com | Laura Dockrill

Six years ago I woke up on my first Mother’s Day in a nightmare. I was in a strange room, in a single bed of starched white sheets, windows bolted shut. My catatonic gaze found the nurse’s eyeball through the gap in the door and it all came back: paranoia, mania, rampant anxiety and the devastating damage I’d caused in accusing my partner, Hugo, my childhood sweetheart and best friend, of trying to steal our three-week-old son, Jet. The guilt and self-loathing made me suicidal.
June 2024 New Releases: Romantic Fiction

May 30, 2024 | mrbsemporium.com | Ashley Poston |Cecilia Rabess |Kate Young |Laura Dockrill

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May 15, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Laura Dockrill

Illus. by Lauren Child. May 2024. 40p. Candlewick, $18.99 (9781536235463). PreS-Grade 2. REVIEW. First published May 15, 2024 (Booklist). A child is in the throes of feeling down, blah, or—to use their word—gray, in this picture book that uses colors, similes, and metaphors to demonstrate the power of embracing your feelings. The child starts out with a gray face and a gray hoodie, standing in front of a brick wall.
Laura couldn't wait to be a mother. But within days of her son's birth she had descended into a hellish spiral of paranoia and delusions. Only when she woke up in a psychiatric ward did she discover the true cause... | Daily Mail Online

May 1, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Laura Dockrill

I'm changing my two-week-old son's nappy. He bursts into tears. His tears explode my heart but I can't comfort him because I'm exploding too, only I wish I had the primal courage to cry out like him. I am unable to soothe him. To tell him everything will be OK, because I'm not sure that's true. I've not told anyone about the days of incessant racing thoughts and snakes of paranoia, the strangling anxiety and rampant insomnia.