Most mothers have had a thought they didn't recognize as their own. It arrives without warning. Unprompted. Often vivid. The image of something happening to the baby — a fall, a slip, something going wrong in a moment of complete ordinary care. The content is...
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Perinatal Mental Health Is Not a Brain Disorder
Why postpartum distress is a systems-level physiological state, not a psychiatric malfunction. In my work in perinatal mental health, I hear a familiar pattern described again and again. Treatment helps. Symptoms stabilize. Women function better. And yet, something...


