Post‐partum mental illness in Northern Nigeria

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ABSTRACT– All the major psychotic disorders observed following childbirth in the West also occur among patients in Northern Nigeria. The age at onset of post‐partum mental disorder is observed to be lower among Northern than Southern Nigerian women; this, in the authors opinion, is probably because women in Northern Nigeria are generally “given out” to their spouses in early teenage. The study also comments on a probable entity of “pure puerperal psychosis”.

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