Post partum issues

Im 1 week postpartum Aparently last night I woke up screaming, genuinely terrified of something, my partner calmed me down then did some research, he believes its post partum psychosis. The only other sign has been hallucinations (thinking objects on our bed were other babies or believing i am holding my daughter but shes in her bed)

Ive not had thoughts about harming myself or my baby, infact ive been incredibly careful with her, constantly wanting to check on her or waking to the slightest of sounds worried about her/protect her

Any idea if it is psychosis? Or if its just hormone induced night terrors/something like that

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Sounds like pp anxiety, psychosis is like having crazy thoughts and believing the are true while anxiety is fear or the thoughts happening.

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I was the exact same and went to the GP and got diagnosed with postpartum anxiety,I’m taking medication for it now and it’s better although the difference with me was I was so worried something bad was going to happen (anxiety) that I was getting no sleep which was then causing me to hallucinate

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I feel like people who have actual psychosis don’t realize they have it and the fact that you are questioning if you have it makes me also feel like it’s PPA instead but I am not a doctor just know it does get better and I am here to talk if you need to, you are not alone I promise you.

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