POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS: An honest conversation with Laura Dockrill

Honestly Podcast with Clemmie Telford

Clemmie Telford + Mags Creative

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4.7 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On this week's special episode of Honestly, Clemmie is joined by Laura Dockrill as she bravely opens up about her devastating mental health struggles with postpartum psychosis. She chats about the moments leading up to her mental health breakdown, the trauma she experienced leading up to this and how she is now raising awareness of postpartum psychosis. If you're affected by this episode, or want to learn more about this, head over to: https://www.app-network.org/ https://www.mind.org.uk/ https://www.pandasfoundation.org.uk/ And of course check out Laura’s book via this link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Have-Done-memoir-motherhood/dp/1529110211 And Laura’s recommendation: Inferno by Catherine Cho https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inferno-Memoir-Catherine-Cho/dp/1526619083 For the full transcription of the episode please follow honestlypodcast.com This episode is sponsored by Smarty Mobile. Please visit www.smarty.co.uk/honestly for more details. To vote for Honestly to win the Listener’s Choice Awards, please visit: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Clemy Telford and it's time to get open and get honest.
0:09.1	Each week, I interview a guest about a topic that we as a society often shy away from.
0:14.8	From sex lives to salaries, life and death, religion and real bodies, no subject is off the table.
0:21.8	Welcome to Honestly, the podcast.
0:29.0	This week's episode is a little more gritty.
0:31.9	It's one that I've been wanting to do for some time since the guest wrote a blog post for Mother Royalist two years ago
0:38.4	that has been read approximately 700,000 times in which she documented the details of her
0:44.1	postpartum psychosis. I first met Laura Dockler and her partner, Hugo White, when we were both
0:50.7	heavily pregnant with her babies, Gretta and Jett, who were due days after each other.
0:55.5	In the weeks followed, as I knew that Laura was reaching induction date,
0:59.5	I kept waiting to hear from her and waiting to hear from her,
1:02.0	and as time went by, I became more and more worried.
1:05.0	And it seems that my instincts were right,
1:07.5	because Laura was having a pretty rough time of it.
1:10.0	Not only does she have a
1:10.9	traumatic birth, it led to mania, delusions, paranoia, anxiety and eventually spiraled into
1:16.4	postpartum psychosis. Hello no Laura. Hi, Climmy. How are you? Well, I've got a stai and my, the book's
1:26.2	been out for nearly a week tomorrow. So actually I am
1:32.3	feeling so much better than what I anticipated. Actually, in a sort of way, lockdown has helped,
1:39.8	I think, because it's kept me really safe and meant that I've been forced to be with Hugo and Jett
1:45.6	in this time, which actually is the safest place probably for me to be rather than darting around
1:50.2	the UK. I'm just making Jets scrambled eggs and that just feels really safe. There's something really
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