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What happens when the doctors caring for postpartum women experience postpartum depression themselves? The truth is shocking—physician mothers are experiencing postpartum depression and anxiety at twice the rate of the general population. 

Dr. Jessica Vernon, OBGYN and perinatal mental health advocate shares about the lack of postpartum education in medical training, the stigma physicians face when they struggle, and why so many provider mothers feel isolated, burned out, and unsupported.

Dr. Vernon gets real about her own postpartum experience—how she didn’t even recognize her anxiety, OCD, and depression for two years, why she had to "prescribe herself" antidepressants, and the systemic failures that push doctors, midwives, and therapists to their breaking point. 

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Key Time Stamps: 

• 03:08 – How Dr. Vernon’s experience with postpartum OCD, anxiety, and depression changed her career
• 09:12 – Why physician mothers have DOUBLE the risk of postpartum depression
• 15:44 – The major gap in provider education on postpartum mental health
• 19:18 – When providers experience their own postpartum struggles, how do they reconcile it with their training?
• 22:10 – How postpartum care needs a complete redesign

Connect with Dr. Jessica Vernon, MD. Dr. Jessica Vernon, MD, FACOG, PMH-C is a board certified OB/GYN with a specialty in perinatal mental health. She currently works at Oula, a midwifery based collaborative care practice. She's a physician advocate working to decrease healthcare disparities and bring awareness and better support for women with peripartum mood disorders. Jessica is also a mom, partner, daughter, friend and author of Then Comes Baby. Website | IG 

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