Episode 29: “Perinatal Mood Disorders Don’t Discriminate” with Clinical Pharmacist Jasmine @pearlsofjasmine

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode 29: “Perinatal Mood Disorders Don’t Discriminate” with Jasmine @pearlsofjasmine This week, Rachael and guest Jasmine discuss a very important and often stigmatized topic, postpartum mental health and perinatal mood disorders. Dr. Jasmine is a clinical pharmacist who is incredibly vulnerable and open in talking about her own experiences with postpartum anxiety, depression, and insomnia after the birth of her daughter and how that experience led to her decision to be “one and done”. Jasmine shares her expert knowledge as a pharmacist and discusses the stigma of medications, the pros and cons of the "new" postpartum depression medication, and discusses her own decision to start medication after the birth of her daughter. Find out some common misconceptions or stereotypes about perinatal mental health or treatments, how being an Asian-American woman influenced her during her postpartum experience, and how culture and representation is so incredibly important for women on this journey to not feel so alone. Jasmine is a clinical pharmacist and mom of one. She became very passionate about maternal mental health after she suffered severe postpartum depression, insomnia and anxiety shortly after having her child. As a healthcare provider, she never thought she would be affected by PPD because she assumed she’d recognize the signs and know how to ward it off. Writing about her journey on her blog and then sharing some of these moments on Instagram have been a way for her to heal and try to normalize mental health for other moms. Just a few months ago, she completed her perinatal mental health certification (PMH-C) to continue to educate herself further on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Jasmine’s IG page: https://www.instagram.com/pearlsofjasmine/ Healing the Tigress podcast IG Page: https://www.instagram.com/healingthetigress/ Referenced in this Episode: Jasmine’s Newsletter about new treatment option Podcast Episode on Fatherhood in Postpartum More on being “One and Done” Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website (transcripts available here) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:25.9	UK. Welcome back to the podcast No One Told Us. I am your host, Rachel. And here today with me is Dr.
0:39.6	Jasmine of Pearls of Jasmine, who is a clinical pharmacist and a mom of one. She became very
0:45.2	passionate about maternal mental health after she suffered severe postpartum depression and anxiety
0:50.2	shortly after the birth of her child. And as a health care provider herself, she never thought she would be affected because she assumed she'd recognize some of the signs and how to ward it off.
0:59.0	Writing about her journey on her blog and then sharing some of these moments on Instagram have been a way to try and heal and normalize the stigma of mental health for other moms.
1:08.0	Just a few months ago, she completed her perinatal
1:11.0	mental health certification to continue to educate herself further on perinatal mood and anxiety
1:16.5	disorders. Thank you so much, Dr. Jasmine, for being here with us. I think this episode is going to
1:21.2	resonate with a lot of our listeners. So I'm so glad that you are willing to be such an open
1:25.9	book and to talk about this. Welcome.
1:28.5	Thank you, Rachel, so much. And you can just call me Jasmine. I put the doctor because people
1:33.6	don't know pharmacists have like doctorate degrees, but like most pharmacists don't like being
1:38.3	called or not that they don't like. It's just weird to them. Oh my gosh. Well, you're being
1:43.1	very humble. The way that you write about your experience is so relatable to so many of us who have also
1:50.5	struggled with mental health postpartum.
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