Postpartum Psychosis: The Andrea Yates Case

Published: March 14, 2017, midnight

b'Andrea Yates confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub at home on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.\\xa0\\xa0 In her 2002 trial, the district attorney in asked for the death penalty. She was ultimately found competent to stand trial and convicted of capital [\\u2026]'