Postpartum Depression & Psychosis: What the Lindsay Clancy Case Brings to Light — Explained by the Self-Esteemed Counselor

yeah absolutely well i love all the information you shared so far i'm out of my questions but i want to give the floor to you what would you want to tell the bitch besties what i haven't touched on maybe just from your point of view as a clinician also as a mother i'm only a doggy mom you know i don't have human children for women who might experience postpartum depression or even worse, psychosis?

I would say I think the lesson here is that not only from this case, but just in general, that postpartum depression does not make mothers dangerous.

So please know that.

I would also say that another lesson is that when a woman tells us something, tells anybody something, and something's seriously wrong that we really need to pay attention, especially if we're seeing changes in their sleep and their thinking and their behavior and their functioning, their connection to reality.

We need to listen very, very carefully and take it seriously.

Again, like I said, I would rather have you come if it's just regular postpartum adjustments, then you thinking that the not coming and being like, Oh, this is just, you know, part of motherhood.

If it does not feel right, do something and say something.

And for other people to take that seriously, because we, something can cross over from something to feeling like distress, the psychiatric, psychiatric emergency pretty darn quickly.

And we need to be aware of that and just not assume, you know, they had a baby before this and they were fine, you know, and it's just not always like that.

It just, uh, every situation is different or they look, they look great.

You know, they looked like they were engaging with their family and that does not tell the whole story.

You know, all the time there could something be something seriously going on that, Maybe we don't see for, I don't know, 30 minutes of seeing someone.

But the more we pay attention, the more we ask the questions, like don't be afraid to ask those questions if you are a family member or a friend of someone and you're concerned.

Again, I'd rather you say something than it be too late and turn into a horrific situation.

Yeah, absolutely.

And also I came to realize, which I kind of always knew, but especially in this case, how much mothers actually carry the burden.

You know, it's almost everything is on them.

So now they are struggling with recovery physically from birth.

They are struggling maybe mentally from recovering from birth.

Right.

But they're also the CEO of the whole household, right? They do everything.

They do the cleaning, the cooking, the doctor's appointments, you know, the everything.

So, you know, people always like to say it takes a village, but the moms carry a lot of weight.

There's a lot.

There's a lot of states.