THE FUSE

Postpartum psychosis can be understood as the most extreme expression of a nervous system that has become trapped in an unresolved, escalating threat state during one of the greatest physiological transitions of human life. A central premise in this perspective is that all psychology is physiology at its core. Emotions, behaviors, thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs are emergent properties of underlying mitochondrial, cellular, metabolic, endocrinologic, immunologic, and neurologic phenomena.