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"You're driving me crazy!" -- not just rhetoric

posted by Zed on December 11 2006 07:16

Motherhood and mental illness:

First-time mothers are at increased risk for mental disorders while fathers do not share that risk, Danish researchers said on Tuesday. In a 32-year study that included more than 2.3 million Danes, roughly one out of 1,000 first-time mothers were admitted to a psychiatric hospital with a mental illness such as depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder within the following year — most within the first three months.

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