About this service
Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) is the UK charity for women and families affected by postpartum psychosis (PP), a severe mental illness which begins suddenly following childbirth.
Our peer support network helps women and families affected by PP feel understood, supported and less isolated.
Visit our website to find information and resources about postpartum psychosis, and click on the ‘Support’ link to view all of our available support.
APP’s peer support service connects you with people who have been there. We can support you if you’ve had postpartum psychosis (PP), or experienced high mood or mania after the birth of your child, or if you are a partner or family member of someone who has experienced PP.
We know that discharge from hospital, from a Mother and Baby Unit or from other treatment is usually only the beginning of a longer journey to recovery. People often tell us they have never met or talked to anyone else who has experienced PP. Myths and misunderstandings about the illness can make it harder to talk to wider family, friends or other new mums about what happened.
You can talk to us, whether you are newly recovering, considering another baby, want to talk about parenting after PP, or even if you had PP many years ago and would just like to talk, ask questions, or meet others. Our peer support volunteers are mainly women who are recovered from PP, but we have partners, grandparents, and other family members too. They have been there and understand something of what you have been through.
We can also provide peer support and/or information if you are at high risk of postpartum psychosis (PP), because you are pregnant and have bipolar disorder.
There are different ways for you to get support, depending on what feels most comfortable for you. In some areas of the country, we have lived experience café groups where women with PP, and their partners and family members, can meet together informally. We also have groups for Partners and Grandparents. Our online peer support forum never closes, it's there 24/7, 365 days of the year.
Our Birmingham peer support café group is part of our NHS partnership project with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
**For information about our regional peer support groups, including meet up dates for our Birmingham group, please visit https://www.app-network.org/get-help/peer-support-for-postpartum-psychosis/
To join the group, please complete the peer support request form available on this webpage, or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.**
Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) is the UK charity for women and families affected by postpartum psychosis (PP), a severe mental illness which begins suddenly following childbirth.
Our peer support network helps women and families affected by PP feel understood, supported and less isolated.
Visit our website to find information and resources about postpartum psychosis, and click on the ‘Support’ link to view all of our available support.
APP’s peer support service connects you with people who have been there. We can support you if you’ve had postpartum psychosis (PP), or experienced high mood or mania after the birth of your child, or if you are a partner or family member of someone who has experienced PP.
We know that discharge from hospital, from a Mother and Baby Unit or from other treatment is usually only the beginning of a longer journey to recovery. People often tell us they have never met or talked to anyone else who has experienced PP. Myths and misunderstandings about the illness can make it harder to talk to wider family, friends or other new mums about what happened.
You can talk to us, whether you are newly recovering, considering another baby, want to talk about parenting after PP, or even if you had PP many years ago and would just like to talk, ask questions, or meet others. Our peer support volunteers are mainly women who are recovered from PP, but we have partners, grandparents, and other family members too. They have been there and understand something of what you have been through.
We can also provide peer support and/or information if you are at high risk of postpartum psychosis (PP), because you are pregnant and have bipolar disorder.
There are different ways for you to get support, depending on what feels most comfortable for you. In some areas of the country, we have lived experience café groups where women with PP, and their partners and family members, can meet together informally. We also have groups for Partners and Grandparents. Our online peer support forum never closes, it's there 24/7, 365 days of the year.
Our Birmingham peer support café group is part of our NHS partnership project with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
**For information about our regional peer support groups, including meet up dates for our Birmingham group, please visit https://www.app-network.org/get-help/peer-support-for-postpartum-psychosis/
To join the group, please complete the peer support request form available on this webpage, or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.**