Medea syndrome: mothers killing
First part of ' article by Dr. Sara Di Vaio Eba published on the portal of benessere4u.it
The murder of a child by the hand of his mother is a gesture so violent that it is impossible to justify . But understand, at least try, it is important, essential, because it can be groped to prevent it.
Saturday evening, November 21, 2009, the latest tragedy. The scenario is a detached house built in the countryside in Pieve di Curtarolo, about twenty miles from Padua.
Gianni, 40, leaves home at 19, to return half an hour later Two pizzas for dinner. In the kitchen is his wife, Monica of 35 years, his clothes stained with blood and his son Alessandro who had not yet three years, now dead, kept close in his arms. Monica
killed him with a dozen stab wounds and then wrapped with a small blanket and was lying on the floor, keeping him close to the small little body.
Next to them, the kitchen knife used as a weapon.
It took nearly four hours to remove the child from her arms. The Padua pm Orietta Canova has ordered the detention for manslaughter against the woman. Now Monica, who only three months ago gave birth to a child, is hospitalized in the department of psychiatry Hospital of Padua, kept sedated and under close police surveillance. For hours, she remained with him staring into space, without saying a word.
The woman, as her husband was reported to the police, the birth of her second daughter was no longer appeared serene. In more than one occasion had seemed strange, silent. Changed his behavior but had not worried and could not foresee a tragedy of this magnitude. At the time for the investigators could not hear the woman, the best hypothesis and bouncing in the headlines seems to be to have a fit of madness to postnatal depression.
But what is postpartum depression?
In the first days after childbirth, many women (over 70%) exhibiting a disorder called baby blues "syndrome of the third day, a transient noise that occurs 2-3 days after birth and consists of alterations mood such as anxiety, sadness, irritability, agitation and crying at ease against the unmotivated child, partner, family members generally, including other children. The woman tends to continually ask if it can (and in the right way) to take care of their child, if it is able to assume responsibility for him.
is a minor and transient noise, which usually imposes a limit within two to three weeks.
Far more serious and lasting are the symptoms of "post-partum depression" that may last for an entire year and include: * excessive worry
* anxiety * irritability *
feel pressured and overburdened
* *
exhausted despair
* *
appetite insomnia or excessive sleep
* confusion * difficulty making decisions
crying *
reckless disregard for the child * *
fear of hurting the baby or herself
* sudden mood changes
Some specific symptoms affecting the mother-child relationship and the mother often exacerbate feelings of guilt, shame and the unsuitability role mother. In particular, it is quite common
* Tell your child as a burden
* Not being able to feel emotions toward the child *
feel inadequate in caring for the child, afraid of being alone with him
* Thinking of being mothers and wives unable
* Not being able to concentrate on everyday things that have to do with the mother-child interaction (recognition of each other's needs, emotional attunement, the simple parental care)
The phenomenon is found in approximately 10% of women who have just given birth, an increase of 30% if they were hit by the depression itself, on the occasion of a birth previous year. The percentage rises significantly in the presence of women who have already experienced in the past mental health problems of various kinds. The duration of symptoms varies from a few weeks to a year, with subsequent risk of recurrence.
In a continuum, the disorder can be progressively more severe until the postpartum psychosis: it is the most severe form of depression. Symptoms include states of agitation, confusion, pessimism, social problems, insomnia, paranoia, hallucinations, suicidal or homicidal toward the child. The survey of post-partum psychosis is a new mother in every thousand.
some time now psychologists and psychiatrists have warned and urged not to underestimate any signs of even minimal discomfort. In particular, they are called into question the obstetricians and pediatricians who follow the pregnant woman and then in the puerperium.
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