32 | Lindsey Barnsley: Postpartum Psychosis is Real
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
My real life friend, Lindsey Barnsley, is sharing her vulnerable experience as a normal momma with a newborn - going about her daily routine - to days later being in a mental institution for postpartum psychosis.
She shares about the hallucinations that she had, the lies that she believed - which included a sex trafficking ring, familial sexual abuse, a "cheating spouse" and her experience in a psychiatric hospital while her newborn baby and toddler were at home.
Postpartum Anxiety and Postpartum Depression are becoming more of a conversation, although most women still do not report mood changes after having a baby. Postpartum Psychosis is far more rare, and is the most severe form of postpartum psychiatric illness.
It is a rare event that occurs in approximately 1 to 2 per 1000 women after childbirth. Its presentation is often dramatic, with onset of symptoms as early as the first 48 to 72 hours after delivery.
We dig deep into topics like these to bring awareness and to remind women that they are never alone.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Living Easy Podcast. I'm so happy to have all of you here today. |
| 0:05.6 | I cannot even begin to describe the intensity of the next two episodes. |
| 0:12.0 | So Lindsay's episodes on postpartum psychosis are going to be |
| 0:15.8 | split into two parts just so that they're a little bit shorter so this week is |
| 0:20.6 | part one and next week next Monday will be part two. |
| 0:24.3 | But she talks about her experience as a normal mama, |
| 0:28.3 | just going about her daily routine, |
| 0:30.4 | having gone to the doctor already |
| 0:31.9 | and having him say that she's completely fine |
| 0:34.0 | to days later being in a mental institution for postpartum psychosis. |
| 0:40.0 | So she's talking about what led up to that point, how she discovered that she had this, and what it looked like, what hallucinations she had, what lies she was believing, and so forth. |
| 0:50.0 | Lindsey loves Jesus, loves people, and I just adore her, so I'm really thankful for her being vulnerable enough to share her story today. |
| 0:58.0 | And thank you all for tuning in and listening to the Living Easy Podcast. |
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| 1:09.4 | We talk all about faith and relationships |
| 1:11.8 | and dig deep into really hard raw stuff just to remind |
| 1:14.9 | other women that they're never alone in their mess or their chaos and that there |
| 1:19.1 | really is so much hope. Also if you wouldn't mind taking a quick second to rate and review the |
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