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When It's Not Just the Baby Blues: Postpartum Psychosis
When a tragedy makes headlines, millions of people hear two words they've never had explained: postpartum psychosis. This week, Dr. Raina Patel steps in as your doctor, not your commentator, to explain what it actually is, and just as importantly, what it isn't.
She draws the clear line between the common, treatable struggles of new motherhood, the depression, the anxiety, the intrusive thoughts that terrify good mothers who would never act on them, and the rare psychiatric emergency of postpartum psychosis. You'll learn why it comes on fast, why it waxes and wanes so it's dangerously easy to…
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