Episode 338: Postpartum Mental Illness and Postpartum Psychosis
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hi, friends!
In this episode, I do a deep dive into postpartum mental illness including baby blues, postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis. This was requested by a number of listeners due to the Lindsay Clancy case, which I discuss briefly in the episode.
Please be aware that I do discuss topics such as infanticide, suicide, and the specific case of Lindsay Clancy. However, I do not go into details of what happened and there are no explicit descriptions.
As always, you can send me questions for future episodes to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode338
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| 0:00.0 | And if this all sounds frightening, especially the psychosis part, it is, right? |
| 0:04.6 | It is. |
| 0:05.6 | It's a really scary and unnerving experience for both the person experiencing psychosis and |
| 0:11.7 | for those around them because it's like, wow wasn't prepared for this what do you do with this |
| 0:16.1 | but as with any form of psychosis people who are experiencing postpartum psychosis are usually |
| 0:22.3 | not dangerous. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:27.1 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:31.6 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:33.2 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but |
| 0:38.1 | also respect and recognize your limitations so please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:54.0 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your |
| 0:58.1 | therapist. This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for |
| 1:03.2 | professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:27.4 | Podcast episode 338. I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Deaf the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:36.0 | And today I am doing a deep dive episode on a particular topic. |
| 1:42.0 | Today I'm going to be talking about postpart of mental health difficulties, |
| 1:47.0 | meaning mental health issues that arise after somebody births a child. |
| 1:52.0 | I will be getting back to the question-answer format in future |
| 1:56.2 | episodes so if you would like to send me a question for me to answer on the show, shoot me an email to |
| 2:00.9 | Duff the Psych at gmail. com or you can use the contact form on my website |
| 2:06.5 | and on my website is where you can find all the content that I made related to all sorts of |
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