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Postpartum Psychosis (PPP) is a life-threatening mental health issue that affects a small percentage of mothers. Causing delusions, hallucinations, and paranoia, PPP is a mental health emergency that puts babies’ and mothers’ lives at risk.

With proper treatment, including inpatient care, PPP can resolve within a few weeks. However, left untreated, PPP can persist for months, and tends to worsen in severity over time.

While PPP is rare, many women struggle with their mental health in the postpartum period, with shifting hormones, sleep deprivation, and the overwhelming responsibility of caring for tiny human taking a toll on their emotional wellbeing.

Acclaimed novelist Jodi Picoult explores trauma and postpartum psychosis in her latest book, Hollow Bones, and offers readers a narrative look at a mother's experience of PPP.

HRA: Your latest novel, Hollow Bones, centers around the lasting trauma of characters whose lives were changed by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In what ways do you notice our society continuing to be impacted by the collective trauma of this event?

Jodi Picoult: It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11 this September, and I think if you were alive at the time of the attacks, you carry a memory of that with you, still. Everyone knows exactly where they were when the planes hit the Twin Towers. In that sense, every reader is bringing his or her own story to this novel, too.

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