Timing of mental illness onset and motherhood.

Experiences of motherhood when suffering from mental illness: a hermeneutic study.

Being a mother is inseparable from women's existential life. Mothers with mental illness struggle with conflicting and distressing feelings related to motherhood. They seldom obtain the necessary support to increase their control over the determinants of their role as a mother, thus their opportunity of improving their own and their children's mental health is weakened. The aim of this study wa...

Combined effects of physical illness and comorbid psychiatric disorder on risk of suicide in a national population study.

BACKGROUND People with physical illness often have psychiatric disorder and this comorbidity may have a specific influence on their risk of suicide. AIMS To examine how physical illness and psychiatric comorbidity interact to influence risk of suicide, with particular focus on relative timing of onset of the two types of illness. METHOD Based on the national population of Denmark, individua...

Parenting and Mental Illness: A Group for Mothers

Parenting and Mental illness Popular conceptions of motherhood tend to exclude considerations of mental illness; nevertheless, women with mental illness do become pregnant and care for their children, a finding consistent across major diagnostic groups. Sixty-seven percent of women meeting criteria for severe and persistent mental illness over a 12-month period are mothers (Hinden et al., 2005)...

Mental illness: relation to childbirth and experience of motherhood

Investigating mental patients’ referral pathways in Gilan province

Introduction: Many people with mental health problems do not seek professional help but their use of other sources of help is unclear. This study conducted to determine the referral pathways in mental patients in Gilan, Iran. Methods: In this cross sectional study, 308 mental patient's psychiatric patients who referred to the emergency department of Shafa educational – remedial Hospital located...