Postpartum Hormones, Psychosis & What Doctors Are Missing in Women's Mental Health - EP119

Physician, Heal Thyself The Podcast · Sep 17, 2026 · 41m

She was a labor and delivery nurse. She told her husband, her mother, her family, and every medical professional she saw that something was terribly wrong. She was prescribed 13 psychiatric medications in four months. Her symptoms never resolved. She was not crazy — she was hormonally depleted and medically failed. And she is not the only one.

Prompted by the high-profile Lindsey Clancy case, Dr. Ana Lara sets aside the legal narrative and speaks as a physician about what she sees as the central medical failure in this story and in countless women's stories that never make headlines: no one…