And a lot of people here seem to be acting as if Postpartum Psychosis is particularly picked on. Ever seen “Rain Man”? Or any other movies depicting autistic people? Maybe ones with people with general depression? Or bipolar disorder? Notice you can’t think of any where it wasn’t an extreme case, where it was part of the main storyline?

And then maybe type 1 diabetes? I can not think of one example it is brought up in a story unless a situation occurs later where their life is threatened by not having access to an insulin shot. You people need to grow up and realise this happens everywhere on TV. It will not stop. The ignorant always succeed in their ignorance. So stop complaining about it here. Set up a web page or weekly show that looks at diseases in media, and explains them realistically. ABC shouldn’t be ashamed; they are just giving the people what they want.

You do not have to drown your child to kill it. You can drive them to it.

I was lucky she died first.

Also I never developed a “maternal” bond with her where her abuse reflected on me. I knew she was a horrible person, and it was not my fault.

Mothers are not holy things, they are human, and as likely if not more than a father, to abuse children.

Luckily my father was very nurturing. And apologetic about marrying a psychotic b$tch. It caused him a great deal of guilt, as he found after she died, how she was when he was not around.

We are so blinded by cultural perceptions that mothers are saints, and fathers not as naturally gifted with children, that many men doubt what they see in the mothers of their children.

How do you admit to yourself that you married a monster and gave her victims to torture?

sorry my bad english.

I suffered from postpartum depression over 5 years ago. Never once did I consider harming my daughter; I turned my pain inward, with cutting and suicide attempts. As indicated by the statistics, most women who suffer from postpartum continue to care for their children and would never consider hurting their children.

Ever since the case of the Texas woman who drowned her children, the media has jumped on the “postpartum” bandwagon and, as is usually the case, has misrepresented the illness and has only made the stigma worse. This episode will do more damage than good because, like it or not, the average viewer does believe what they see on television and they are quick to judge, especially in the absence of credible and reliable information. I am disheartened by ABC’s irresponsibility and will happily boycott anything and anyone that chooses to misrepresent and misinform on this subject.

The habit of picking out weird unpronounceable highly-unlikely medical disorders as the subject of a medical drama is so widespread and has gone on for so many decades that it’s a cultural joke. I kind of liked the worms-in-the-brain “crossover” episode. I must know a half dozen people suffering from that.