I found it.
Octuplets' mother had depression, suicidal thoughts while starting a family
It's an interesting article overall. Here are a few more of the interesting bits:
Not long after high school, Suleman began her quest as a single woman to have a family of her own. In 1995, she had the first of three ectopic pregnancies, a condition that routinely ends in miscarriage and can be dangerous to the mother. The records are unclear about whether those pregnancies were the result of artificial insemination.
A year later, she married Marcos Gutierrez, a produce manager.
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After the baby was born, the emotional roller coaster continued. This time, she was by turns elated and despairing -- and also terrified that the baby would be kidnapped or injured. "My husband or my mother has to take me almost everywhere," she told one of the doctors.
-snip-
Doctors declared her resilient and strong, though one did question her "capacity for psychological insight."
That is a very good article, thanks Jholi.
This woman is reported to be 33, so depending on what her date of birth is, she was born in 1976 or 1977 give or take a year.
So she would have graduated from HS in or around 1994. I just added 18 years to her birth year. Does the math look okay so far?
So that takes up to 1994 or 1995. The article states:
"Not long after high school, Suleman began her quest as a single woman to have a family of her own. In
1995, she had the first of three ectopic pregnancies, a condition that routinely ends in miscarriage and can be dangerous to the mother. The records are unclear about whether those pregnancies were the result of artificial insemination."
Her first planned pregnancy was about one year after graduating high school, and that was as a single Mother.
NOTE: I'm not bashing single mothers or teenage mothers...I, myself, have been both. So she was 19 or so when she started to plan pregnancies.
Then we read:
"A year later, she married Marcos Gutierrez, a produce manager. She also earned a psychiatric technician license from Mt. San Antonio College and began working at Metropolitan State Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Norwalk. It was there that she sustained the injury that led to the workers' compensation claim."
So a year later (if we assume it was a year after the first planned pregnancy attempt because that is how it follows in the article) At the age of 20 (give or take) she marries and finishes a license to work at the Hospital.
This brings us up to 1997 or so?
So approximately 2 years later she is injured in a melee at work....
"On Sept. 18, 1999, 20 patients began rioting..."
"Ultimately, Suleman was paid nearly $170,000 in workers' compensation benefits during an eight-year period that ended last December, when she resigned from her job. Although she had remained on the hospital's staff, she had returned to work only briefly after the injury."
So for an 8 yr period she recieved payment for her injuries that kept her from working... ending in DEC 2008.
"In 2000, she separated from Gutierrez,
a split she blamed in part on her withdrawal and lack of interest in life."
She got pregnant in 2000 with IVF. Here is what I find concerning....
"By 2000, a back injury and her inability to bear children had
sent her into a deep depression in which she told a psychiatrist that she had suicidal thoughts."
"During her pregnancy and after the birth of her first child, Suleman's records indicate,
she experienced wild mood swings. Despite her joy at being pregnant, she told Nehamen, "It was during that time
I became depressed and I just wanted to die."
Her therapist said:
"Nehamen said in his report that the depression was not related to her back injury, but stemmed from "the powerful and uncontrollable emotions associated with her pregnancy ..."
But another doctor said:
"Another doctor disagreed and diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder."
Then she reconciled with her husband and seperated again and divorced....2000-2008
"After the baby was born,
the emotional roller coaster continued. This time,
she was by turns elated and despairing --"
She even told her therapist at the time she was afraid the baby would be kidnapped...that to me sounds almost delusional. It certainly qualifies as irrational.
This woman sounds emotionally unstable. It sounds like she has been for a very long time. That is what concerns me most about this issue.
