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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other thing is that NONE of us have access to her medical records.  We have no idea what was going on.  [b]She was on an anti-psychotic. [/b] This was not garden variety post-partum depression. [/quote]

I agree with the PP about Seroquel, but I think it's also worth agreeing with this PP that "garden variety postpartum depression" is usually treatable with ONE antidepressant and weekly therapy. Maybe Zoloft doesn't work well and you try something else. Maybe you do a group instead of an individual therapy appointment. But either way, "garden variety" PPD doesn't require 12 different medications over 7 months, inpatient hospitalization, intensive outpatient therapy. That amount of treatment indicates A CRISIS in this family. There is an attitude on this thread that someone somewhere should have done something differently. Realistically, it doesn't always work that way. This was a person who had a ton of resources, knowledge, and support. She was engaged with a lot of treatment. Maybe she was overmedicated, it definitely happens, but sometimes it also happens that the intensity of someone's mental health problems is just so severe that all the treatment in the world can't prevent tragedy from happening. [/quote]

Almost all the meds she was on were for anxiety and sleep - not depression. [/quote]

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