EP 137 - Postpartum OCD, Anxiety, and Mental Health Issues w/ Jenna Overbaugh
The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast
Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Therapists and counselors also struggle with mental health. Licensed mental health professional Jenna Overbaugh treats anxiety disorders for a living, but after the birth of her son she struggled with postpartum anxiety, depression and OCD.
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Jenna always assumed that her training and profession would have her well prepared to handle anxiety and depression issues in own life. After a traumatic delivery experience, Jenna began to experience intrusive thoughts centered on accidentally harming her newborn. The thoughts expanded and against her own professional advice, Jenna found herself unwittingly engaging in the avoidance and safety behaviors that she logically knew fuel the problem.
Jenna’s experience taught her that there is giant hole in our society where the basics of mental health for new mothers should be. Without having the benefit of the knowledge Jenna has, the average new mom is totally lost and terrified when confronted with the common mental health struggles that can pop up after childbirth. There is plenty of information about the nuts and bolts of delivery and caring for a newborn but virtually no discussion of even basic postpartum mental health concepts.
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Music Credit: "Afterglow" by Ben Drake (https://facebook.com/BenDrakeMusic) with permission
Disclaimer: The Anxious Truth is not therapy or a replacement for therapy. Listening to The Anxious Truth does not create a therapeutic relationship between you and the host or guests of the podcast. Information here is provided for psychoeducational purposes. As always, when you have questions about your own well-being, please consult your mental health and/or medical care providers. If you are having a mental health crisis, always reach out immediately for in-person help.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 137 of the Anxious Truth. Welcome back dudes and dudettes. Welcome back |
| 0:17.5 | to the show. Today we have the same guest that we had last week. Jenna Overbaugh is back. |
| 0:23.9 | I had such a good time and we had such a good discussion last week about orthorexia and |
| 0:28.9 | diet and exercise related issues as they're related to anxiety disorders that I asked Jenna |
| 0:33.7 | to come back and we did a second episode in a row. Today we're going to talk about post |
| 0:39.4 | part of OCD and anxiety issues as specifically Jenna's own experience with those things |
| 0:45.3 | as both a new mom and as a therapist who treats those things for living. It was a fascinating |
| 0:51.4 | discussion. Really good. You guys are going to enjoy it. Jenna is awesome. Before we get |
| 0:55.0 | going, you guys know what I'm going to do. I'm going to ask you to check out my book. If |
| 0:58.7 | you're looking for more help than just the podcast can offer go to the anxioustruth.com |
| 1:02.7 | slash recovery guide. The book is called The Anxious Truth. A step by step guide to |
| 1:06.5 | understanding and overcoming anxiety, panic and agoraphobia. It's about 70,000 words. 400 |
| 1:12.2 | print of pages. It's everything you've ever heard me say on social media or on a podcast |
| 1:15.8 | except in much more detail and organized in a logical sequence like you are taking a |
| 1:19.8 | college course and had to solve your anxiety problem. So if you haven't checked it out |
| 1:23.9 | and you're looking for more help than just just the podcast can give you all means check |
| 1:27.5 | it out. Let's get on welcoming back Jenna overbaugh second week in a row. Let's go talk |
| 1:32.5 | about post partner anxiety and OCD issues. You're going to dig it. Here we go. All right. |
| 1:37.3 | We're back again with a familiar guest from last week. Jenna overbaugh. Jenna, welcome |
| 1:40.7 | back. Thank you. I had so much fun the first time and I'm excited to talk about this. |
| 1:45.5 | So yeah, confession. We just recorded the last one literally five minutes ago. So we're |
| 1:49.5 | lying. It's not like we've had two months of part or anything like that. Any who last |
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