Intrusive Thoughts, Exhaustion & Crippling Shame: Kimberley Nixon’s Postnatal OCD Reality
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
TRIGGER WARNING: this episode contains some difficult conversations, including discussions around suicidal thoughts. We know this can be a lot to take in, so please do take care of yourself while listening and know that it's completely okay to step away and come back when you're ready 💛
May is Maternal Mental Health Month, a reminder that keeping the difficult conversations going matters more than ever.
Our guest this week you'll know from iconic films and tv shows such as Fresh Meat, Wild Child, and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. But after the birth of her son, Kimberley Nixon found herself in some of the darkest days of her life.
Kimberley opens up to Giovanna about experiencing dark and intrusive thoughts, being diagnosed with postpartum OCD, and why she felt it was so important to share her story.
Kimberley's brilliant new book She Seems Fine To Me is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Mum. Before we go into this week's chat, I just want to do a |
| 0:06.9 | little bit of a trigger warning at the top. We talk about post-nator OCD and with that Kimberley talks a lot |
| 0:13.2 | about suicidal thoughts. So if you feel like this isn't the episode for you to listen to right now, |
| 0:18.8 | that's okay. There are many others for you to go back to or to discover. So if you do need to step away, that's absolutely fine. |
| 0:32.1 | I have been following Kimberly for a while. She is an amazing actress. She's a BAFTA winning, a BAFTA winning actress. |
| 0:41.3 | She's been in fresh meat, wild child, under salt marsh. She, in recent years, has been talking |
| 0:48.5 | a lot about maternal mental health. And she's become a real leading voice in this field and letting people |
| 0:55.3 | know that we can talk about these difficult subjects and actually we discuss in this episode how |
| 1:01.6 | freeing it actually is. I think when we are going through something in this way with a feeling |
| 1:08.0 | of not being enough, a feeling like the world will be a better place without you in it, |
| 1:13.0 | being able to take back the control and talk about those thoughts, those feelings, |
| 1:17.7 | and doing so to help others. |
| 1:20.5 | It actually helps you back in return. |
| 1:23.5 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:24.0 | It's kind of like you're no longer giving control to that beast. |
| 1:28.0 | Kimberly is funny. I think that's really different. They're really important actually to highlight |
| 1:32.4 | that, you know, we talk about big heavy stuff. We cry. But also there is, there's a lot of |
| 1:38.8 | laughter within this chat because Kimberly, when she's talking about stuff, she just has this beautiful touch that |
| 1:45.6 | is funny, endearing and she is, yeah, she's just charming and lovely to be around. So as I say, |
| 1:52.8 | there's a lot that we talk about that is heavy, but there's lots of joy within it as well. |
| 1:58.6 | So today's episode is with Kimberly Nixon. |
| 2:04.3 | Feel free to fiddle with your knobs. |
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