Case Report
Year: 2020 | Month: August | Volume: 10 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 147-150
The Puerperal Obsessions- That Wax And Wane
Kalagi Amit Kumar, N Abhishek, Ramamurthy Anjana, Shivappa Madhusudhan
Department of Psychiatry, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Corresponding Author: Kalagi Amit Kumar
ABSTRACT
We report an exacerbation of obsessive compulsion disorder in an Indian woman, which developed within a week following a delivery of a female baby from Victoria hospital, Bengaluru. She was maintaining well with no immediate post partum complications, she had similar episode of Obsessive compulsive disorder in second trimester of pregnancy three years back for which no treatment was sought. The following case report describe the prevalence, clinical features, differential diagnosis, management and discussion by comparing similar studies on obsessive compulsive disorder, finally areas of need of further research are proposed.
Key words: obsessions, puerperium, episodic nature.