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If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, please call 000 or refer to these resources to get urgent help.

I am, apparently, never going to get tired of maternal brain research, and this one is a great example why.

Researchers at Emory scanned over 1,000 young adults in their twenties and thirties, and found that mothers already have a measurably younger
Something that I really don’t think gets said enough is that becoming a mother is one of the only major life transitions that happens to you in public.

I think we talk about the identity shift of motherhood mostly in terms of what a woman gain
My first offical day at WARM Health Collective as we finally opened our doors.

Founding WARM has given us the opportunity to think deeply about not only the kind of mental health care we want to provide, but how we want women and families to feel wh
I’ll be honest, part of me is glad perinatal mental health has been in the news lately and another big part of me is uneasy about which story of it keeps getting told.

Every time a case reaches court, or a parliamentary inquiry opens, or a sta
Almost everything we use to identify perinatal mental illness depends, to some extent, on what you tell us.

Screening tools are questionnaires, so if you give us the tidy version of events, it’s that version that gets recorded and your care is
Can we talk about perimenopause?

Because so much of what gets said about this stage is kind of doom and gloom, like the whole thing is just a slow goodbye to who you used to be.

And look, the symptoms are real: the 3am wake-ups, the word that won&r
As a perinatal psychiatrist, I love that research like this exists.

For so long this whole period was treated as something we couldn’t really see or measure, just feelings and anecdotes, but studies like this are starting to change that.

Rese
Ok, so you’ve probably seen a cure for postpartum depression called Luvesilocin floating around social media: a single injection, with most women symptom-free within a week, an FDA fast-track that made headlines everywhere. 

It sounds like som
No one tells you, in training, that your patients will change you.

You’re taught how to take a history, how to formulate, how to prescribe, taught, implicitly, that the relationship runs one way. 

You hold the expertise, they hold the symptom

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