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Health practitioners' recognition and management of postpartum obsessive-compulsive thoughts of infant harm - PubMed
The postpartum period has been associated with elevated rates of onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) among women, with a prevalence of 2-9%. Postpartum OCD is often characterized by recurrent, unwanted, and highly distressing thoughts, images, or impulses of deliberate infant harm. This stu …