#221: Post-partum Depression and Anxiety

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Sports, Health & Fitness, Running

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and co-host Dimity explore an important subject: post-partum depression and anxiety. The mother runners are joined in this conversation by Mary Jackson Lee, LCSC, a psychotherapist who works with women and couples in this arena. Mary describes the differences between post-partum depression (PPD) and the more common post-partum anxiety, as well as explaining what’s outside the “bell curve of normal.” She offers assurances about how common some levels of anxiety is, and she discusses the arsenal of tools available to help people feel better. Dimity talks about her personal experience with PPD, plus her years-long depression. Mary stresses the importance of finding “something outside your own head,” whether it’s running, yoga, or scrapbooking. Despite being a heavy topic, the discussion ends on an optimistic note. And before bringing on the guest, find out what Team Thrasher is—and why Dimity’s a part of it. (No, she’s not become a mother skateboarder!) Important: This podcast contains trigger warnings...

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0:00.0	Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea and I am joined today by
0:17.6	Dimmity McDowell. Very nice and Denver.
0:26.8	Very nice. It's a pleasure. I don't know. Was that a fill in the blank or where are you going to say it? I couldn't tell. Oh no, it was a fill in the blank.
0:29.2	It was definitely a fill in the blank and I hadn't huge you up. So you know, it's that you know spontaneity and slight awkwardness that people find so charming astimities.
0:37.4	So.
0:39.4	Emphasis on the awkwardness.
0:42.4	Yes exactly and suddenly I remember how tall the two of emphasis on the awkwardness. Yes, exactly.
0:43.0	And suddenly I remember how tall the two of us are and I'm like, yeah, awkward, that pretty much sums up the two of us.
0:48.0	There you go.
0:50.0	Oh my goodness.
0:52.0	So, Dim, you are headed to the great state of Alaska soon. I am I am a week from
0:58.1	Friday to have not really planned much but excited I mean I planned as in I I've not started
1:06.8	packing or looked at the packing list but yes I'm taking Ben who was 10 to Alaska I gave it to him so I took Amelia when she turned 10. I took her to New York and so then that kind of became, you know, a precedence that when a kid turns 10, you know, they get to go on a special trip with mom,
1:25.0	did not put any geographic restrictions on it.
1:27.4	I, continental United States.
1:29.4	Well, that was an oversight.
1:31.2	If you had a third child, you would put that fine print in there.
1:35.7	Yeah, the dog doesn't get to go anywhere. And so anyway, he's obsessed with Alaska.
1:45.0	He is obsessed with the capital.
1:46.2	Oh, well, Alaska and Finland.
1:48.2	Those are the two places that he was like,
1:50.2	I'll go to Alaska mom or I'll go to Finland.
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