Kristina Delaney was five months postpartum(产后的) when her husband saw something was very, very wrong. It was a Friday afternoon, and her husband had gone outside to make a phone call – concerned about his wife’s “hyperactive(过度活跃的)” speech.
克里斯蒂娜·德莱尼产后五个月时，丈夫发现事情非常非常不对劲。那是一个周五下午，丈夫因担心妻子“过度活跃”的言语，走到外面去打电话。
When he returned, she was rock(轻轻摇晃)ing their two children in her arms, and said: “‘Please save us, please save our family,’” said Delaney. “And I thought Jesus was returning(耶稣再来，基督教末世论概念).”
当他回来时，她正把两个孩子抱在怀里摇晃，并说：“‘请救救我们，请救救我们的家，’”德莱尼说。“我以为耶稣要再来了。”
Now, Delaney believes she was in the throes of(处于……的痛苦之中) postpartum psychosis, a severe psychiatric(精神病的，精神病学的) illness that researchers estimate occurs in one to two per 1,000 women after delivery(分娩), the conservative(保守的，谨慎的) equivalent of 3,600 US mothers each year.
如今，德莱尼相信自己当时正处于产后精神病的剧痛之中。这是一种严重的精神疾病，研究人员估计每1000名分娩后的女性中就有1至2人患病，保守估计相当于美国每年有3600名母亲受影响。
‘We still know so little about the illness’
“我们对这种疾病仍知之甚少”