Dossier
Acute psychosis
Coverage of Acute psychosis in the Nexus archive.
- Woman says she ‘didn’t understand mental health’ before daughter experiencing acute psychosis killed another child
A mother who did not understand mental health consulted a naturopathic herbalist about her 14-year-old daughter's concerns. The daughter, who confessed to thinking about killing people 'all the time,' later killed 10-year-old Biddy Porter in rural New South Wales.