Midwives with no Lives

Postpartum Anxiety, OCD & Psychosis

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In honor of Mental Health Awareness month (May), we bring you this episode discussing postpartum anxiety, obssessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis. Please enjoy our interview with the loveliest soul, who ever-so-generously shared their personal experience with postpartum psychosis. Our goal is to destigmatize this topic and bring awareness so that you may recognize if you yourself or someone in your life is struggling to adjust to this new postpartum shift. 

As always we thank you for continuing to listen in on whatever shit we want to talk about each week! If you're a doula, midwife or parent who has a story, some info or experience with any postpartum mood disorder, please consider sending them to us at [email protected] or MwnLPod.com/connect.

And if you're enjoying MwnL, we'd love your feedback, ratings & reviews!

References:

  1. Vitamin D & the Omega-3 fatty acids control serotonin synthesis & action relevance for ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia & impulsive behavior
  2. Vitamin D & fish oil improve cognition & mood by supporting serotonin
  3. NLM - NIH: anxiety during pg & pp; course, predictors and co-morbidities
  4. NLM - NIH: association between vitamin d supplementation & mental health in healthy adults; a systematic review
  5. Cleveland Clinic - Postpartum Anxiety
  6. postpartum.net - anxiety during pg & pp 
  7. postpartum.net - pg & pp obsessive compulsive symptoms
  8. UtD: Overview of the postpartum period; disorders and complications
  9. UtD: Postpartum unipolar major depression: Epidemiology, clinical features, assessment, and diagnosis
  10. UtD: Treatment of postpartum psychosis
  11. UtD: Postpartum psychosis: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course, assessment, and diagnosis

    12. Please also consider checking out This Podcast will Kill You’s episode on Vitamin D as well as a NYTimes article “This is what PPA feels like”

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    Midwives with no LivesBy Ashleigh and Erica Lea