Secret 010: I Had PostPartum Psychosis!
Beyond the Secret
Ace Fanning
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Secret 010: I Had Postpartum Psychosis
After the birth of her second child, a mother is blindsided by hallucinations, mania and loss of reality that she later understands to be postpartum psychosis. She courageously shares her frightening experience with Ace in the hopes that her struggle might raise awareness about the disease and help other mothers to get the help that they need.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this podcast is not kid-friendly. |
| 0:05.0 | So if you don't want your kid to hear about sex and the word shit and all that other stuff, |
| 0:10.0 | you should probably get them out of the room right now. |
| 0:16.0 | Everybody has a secret. This is Beyond the Secret, an anonymous podcast where I uncover the truth |
| 0:20.0 | behind people's deepest secrets. My name is Ace Fanning and I want to know |
| 0:27.3 | what's your secret? |
| 0:31.7 | So, I'm sitting here and I don't have the slightest clue what to say. If I'm being honest, I've purposely avoided doing any interviews like this. |
| 0:49.2 | And it's not because I feel like they don't fit the vibe of this podcast. |
| 0:56.4 | I want this podcast to be as diversified as possible. |
| 1:02.2 | But I've avoided it because I didn't know if I had the ability to take on an |
| 1:10.7 | interview like this. I have no training in giving interviews. So I am |
| 1:19.2 | winging everything as it is. But I really have no training in how to properly handle such a |
| 1:27.3 | sensitive topic. But I think this story is one that needs to be told because if this story helps even just one person, it was so entirely worth it. |
| 1:43.0 | Life can be really fucking hard and I think we've all at one time or another have probably found ourselves struggling through life and my biggest purpose in life |
| 1:56.1 | is to just let people know that they're not alone no matter how hard life gets, you are not alone. And no matter how much you want to |
| 2:08.0 | withdraw from everyone around you, you have to speak up. If you're not feeling okay, you have to speak up. I want the world |
| 2:20.1 | to know how proud I am of this woman for opening up and being so honest about |
| 2:26.0 | the darkest time in her life because I know that this wasn't easy for her and I know that all she wants is the opportunity to help someone else. |
| 2:39.0 | So I hope you listen to this interview with an open heart because I think this world needs a lot more of that. |
| 2:48.0 | Here is Secret 10, I had postpartum psychosis. |
| 2:55.0 | So as someone who has never heard of postpartum psychosis, |
| 3:01.0 | what exactly is it? |
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