Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on November 30, 2005
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2007 33(1):16-18; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbj025
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Personal Account: Snapshots: The First Symptoms of Psychosis
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Episodes of significant depression have been a part of my life for as long as I can recall, but psychosis was unknown to me until I was in my mid-thirties, months after the birth of my second child. At first, all I recognized were the emerging symptoms of postpartum depression in the weeks after the birth: a familiar scenario, since it had also occurred with my first child. My OB/GYN immediately prescribed 50mg of Prozac daily. I took the medication, felt much better, and continued to breastfeed my second daughter with no apparent problems.
In fact, for about four months I felt better than I had in years. My therapist, an LCSW, was thrilled with my progress. She had been treating me with a technique called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for about a year in order to abate the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and panic attacks I had
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