When Katrina Weynberg began experiencing severe mental health issues after prematurely giving birth to twin boys, her symptoms were initially brushed under the carpet.

"No one took it seriously until my husband said there is something seriously wrong with my wife," she said.

Ms Weynberg experienced postpartum psychosis, a severe but treatable psychiatric emergency.

The illness affects one to two in every thousand women and hospitalisation is nearly always required to protect the mother and her baby.

It begins suddenly in the days and weeks after having a baby and the mother can completely lose touch with reality, suffering delusions, hallucinations and mania.

Almost four years on, Ms Weynberg is campaigning for more awareness around perinatal mental health and wants women to know it i

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