DEPRESSION - Red Flags

1)      Suicidal plans

2)      Thoughts of harming the infant in postnatal depression

3)      Disorganized thought, bizarre behavior, visual, olfactory, tactile hallucinations, and delusions within 2/52 of delivery (postpartum psychosis – high risk of suicide and infanticide, urgent psychiatric referral)

4)      Signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism

5)      Signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism

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