Andrea Yates verdict - huh?

[Lissa]

PPP and PPD are two seperate issues. are you implying that their numbers on PPP are lower than you've read elsewhere? PPD is the more common and less drastic disorder so obviously it would afflict more individuals than PPP.

Adding a little statistics to this after thinking a little about 1 to 2 per 1000 mothers being afflicted with 4% of PPP mothers commiting suicide and 5% of PPP mothers commiting infantcide.

Let's look at the US. There are around 280 Million people living in the US. Of those 280 Million, 52% are Female (so 145.6 Million). Let's say that 1% of those Females had children last year, this means that 1,456,000 females are new mothers in the last year. Of those 1,456,000 mothers, 1456 to 2912 were diagnosed with PPP, let's for sake of arguement average that out to 2184 (about 1.5 mothers per 1000). Now, if we take the 4% commited suicide after having their child, that would mean that 87 mothers commited suicide and 109 mothers commited infantcide.

Given the occurance of news items about this kind of thing, the numbers that both myself and Griselda saw do match up very closely. Given, my above example may be off, but it does illustrate that the numbers listed aren't that far off the mark.