
Bob's Baby
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Postpartum Panic Disorder
The combination of the medicine that they were trying to treat her with including and especially I think the painkillers with her hormones and what her body was doing chemically inside of itself created such a crazy storm. She could not sleep and she had random bouts of just extreme like fight or flight adrenaline responses which kept making her blood pressure spike. Manny has dealt with anxiety in her life grad school was very stressful but this was a whole other thing entirely if this is what a real serious full-on panic attack is. It felt like she sincerely thought she was actively dying that she was about to just kick it. Her blood pressure going so high could have caused a stroke or an aneurysm or or
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