Hey guys, welcome back to preview lines podcast. This is Sarah and we have your favorite reproductive psychiatry, Dr. Claire Smith, who we love and she is here today.

We have so much more to talk about but today we're

talking about intrusive thoughts or how we're going to talk about scary thoughts that

99% of moms will have at some point and we just want to normalize it.

So Claire, thank you, welcome.

Thank you, good morning.

Good morning.

Okay, so let's just dive into it because I think this is the type of conversation.

We're not gonna skirt around it because moms need to know what they are going to

experience is common, they're not a monster, right, that this

is something that needs to be spoken about but it's one of those topics that

people get weird. Let's just be honest. They get uncomfortable.

Yeah, they do. It's helpful to start to make a few different definitions maybe.

Yeah. Intrusive thoughts like you said are really, really common.

And so really it's not even 99.9, it's 100%, 100% of moms and probably parents in general but we're specifically talking about

moms here will have intrusive upsetting thoughts about harm coming to their baby accidentally.

Now, half of moms will have intrusive, upsetting thoughts

about harm coming to their baby intentionally

from by themselves.

That's a very, very high number that I think a lot of people don't truly realize both you know

quote regular people but also doctors too it's not something that's discussed a

whole lot even though we are discussing these post-mortem issues more and more, which is great, this is one of the things that's lagging. And so intrusive thoughts are very common. And then we can talk about this more if you'd like, but there's something

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