In this eye-opening conversation, one mother is sharing her raw and unfiltered story of navigating a postpartum psychosis diagnosis, shedding light on this often misunderstood and stigmatized perinatal mood and anxiety disorder.
In order to prevent the spread of misinformation, I invited Paige Bellenbaum of the Motherhood Center to join me today to help clarify the difference between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, and offer psychologically-informed information to help people more fully understand maternal mental health.
While perhaps the most well known, postpartum depression is just one of the forms of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders that can effect women (and men) during and after the birth of a child. I’ll be covering what PMADs are, the symptoms of each and where you can go to seek help.