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After-birth Depression Blamed for Woman’s Suicide

A. new mother apparently suffering from postpartum mental illness fell to her death from a narrow 12th-floor ledge of a Chicago hotel, eluding the lunging grasp of firemen called to help.
The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday that the mother of a 3-month-old daughter, Melanie Stokes, 41, was said to be suffering from a severe form of after-birth depression called postpartum psychosis, an extremely rare biological response to rapidly changing hormonal levels that can result in hallucinations, delusions, severe insomnia and a drastic departure from reality.
"That was a monster in my daughter’s brain, " said Stokes’ mother, Carol Blocker. "The medicine took no effect at all, while her grief was so strong that nothing could make up for it. I’m just glad she didn’t take her daughter with her. "
Virtually all new mothers get postpartum blues, also called the "baby blues". which are
A. Virtually all of them.
B. About one fifth of them.
C. Less than one percent of them.
D. Not mentioned exactly in the passage.

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