Just having these conversations like we are here today where more people hear and have the message more than once that this message is problematic right like your brain matters like kind of a lot actually that we don't have to suffer that medication sometimes can be less risky.

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Happy Monday, you guys. We are talking about Harry Nadel mental health today. A topic that is near and dear to my heart and gosh, like I'm just so excited to share this guest with you.

Dr. Michelle Haynes is a clinical psychiatrist and she specializes in Perry Nadel mental health, which you'll hear us talk about it in the episode.

But there are not very many of her in the United States. There's just not a lot of psychiatrist who really specialized in the pregnant and postpartum population.

So Dr. Haynes and I talked about kind of, you know, a day in her life, what sort of patients that she sees, what to kind of do is that first step if you feel like you're struggling.

We talked about the difference between a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a therapist because there's a big difference.

And we talked a lot about medication and just, you know, went to intervene with medication, what sort of signs and symptoms you should kind of be looking for.

And we also talked about this unfortunate societal stigma that psychiatric medications are bad and you should not be taking psychiatric medications during pregnancy.

If you do, you're just crazy. So we touched on that a bit and yeah, I'm just really excited to share this episode with you guys. So let's dive right in.

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Hi, Michelle. Welcome to the mommy labor nurse podcast. Thank you so much for being here today.

I'm so excited to talk to you.

Yay.

This is pretty great.

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