Across years of studying postpartum physiology and working closely with mothers in the months and years after birth, I began to notice a pattern that did not fit neatly into the categories we commonly use. Women would describe improvement. Their panic attacks...
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Physiology & Neurobiology
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...



