tempts, Yates and her husband, known as Rusty, were living in a converted Greyhound bus they bought from a traveling minister who encouraged them to live a Spartan life. They then had four children. Yates was still nursing baby Luke. The bus had 350 square feet of living space. Last November, the couple's fifth baby and first daughter, Mary, was born. As psychiatrists had predicted, Yates began to deteriorate again, and the downward spiral continued when her father died in March. She was nearly mute by the time her husband took her to the hospital in April and again in May for help. As before, the medical staff's chief concern was that Yates would harm herself, not her kids. She was diagnosed as possibly psychotic, then declared stable and able to begin outpatient treatment. During the outpatient treatment she began to look better, then she Arelapsed@ and June 20th began.In conclusion, I feel PPD needs to be taught and future parents need to be warned. This is quite possibly a disorder you=ve never heard of that is why I feel you need to be informed on PPD and you need to understand the facts of the Andrea Yates case to clearly comprehend the facts of PPD....
