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Case Report: Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar, Zafar Y. Ibrahim, Md, Ellen F. Brooks, Md
Case Report: Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar, Zafar Y. Ibrahim, Md, Ellen F. Brooks, Md
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry
This unusual case underscores the need for psychiatrists to consider treatable and curable causes of acute behavior changes even when historical data are not easily available. This case presentation invites physicians of mind (and body) to utilize simple and common-sense approaches while evaluating their patients.
Postpartum Depression In A Caretaking Grandmother: Case Report, Valerie D. Raskin, M.D.
Postpartum Depression In A Caretaking Grandmother: Case Report, Valerie D. Raskin, M.D.
Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry
Postpartum depression has only recently been understood to affect individuals other than the biological mother (1). In such cases, postpartum depression has been attributed to the enormous psychological and social stress of the caretaking role, with its demands to nurture in the face of what may be the sense of having been insufficiently nurtured oneself (2). A growing number of grandparents, especially maternal grandmothers, are being asked to serve as primary caretakers for their grandchildren, due to circumstances which include adolescent childbearing, single parent families and substance abuse. A case report of a new grandmother with significant caretaking functions who …