Research

I’m using Zotero to read over my chapter one sources and to highlight key passages. And, I’m using Living Writer to organise the outline and manuscript. No affiliate links or promotion; I just use these two tools.

In the beginning, I was hand writing all of my notes into my Kindle Scribe-and now I have 47 PDF handwritten pages that are not very easy to navigate. In essence, I feel like I’m starting over, although, I think hand writing my notes gave me a deeper perspective so I think I want to continue making notes as I do a first-read on a study.

Outline

I may change my outline. It is feeling more like a review of research rather than a book that will highlight that psychosis after giving birth, any time after giving birth, is an important condition that needs treatment that differs from that of males with psychosis.

Current treatment is based on a male medical model and does not take very much into consideration the biological and psychological aspects of pregnancy and motherhood. And, as this is the case, many women are isolated and underrepresented by current studies focusing only on the postpartum period.

Additionally, tailored care can reduce maternal suicide, infanticide, and filicide. While all but maternal suicide can be considered rare, there is a huge social cost with such outcomes.

I think I need to do some more research and reorganise my outline.

Month Off

Taking a month off from research feels like starting over. But, I think I can keep going. My attention span is improving since mania, and I seem to be doing well overall. Cognitive improvements have helped a lot.

I think that is one of the hardest aspects of having Bipolar 1. It takes time to recover and so little time to wreck your life.

Back to Work

Well, I wanted to write this all out on my blog and share the update of where I am in the process of writing the book on maternal psychosis.

It feels good to be at my desk and focusing on research instead of worrying about how old I’m getting.

Too much time in my own head is no good.

Many Thanks

Many thanks for reading :)