Postpartum Psychosis Recovery: Spotting the Symptoms and Getting Inpatient Help with Jade Lloyd (Ep 471)

About this episode

Jade Lloyd shares her powerful story of experiencing postpartum psychosis and the journey to recovery.

Today’s guest shares the events leading up to her postpartum psychosis, what she experienced, and how she managed to recover. It is important to hear stories like this so people understand postpartum psychosis and know how to get help. We all need to recognize the symptoms and get the people we love the help they need. Join us for Jade’s powerful story. Jade Lloyd is a survivor of postpartum psychosis and a maternal mental health advocate from the UK. Her maternal mental health struggles began with anxiety and sleeplessness, soon progressing to scary, intrusive thoughts and hallucinations. Jade shares her story in the hope that more knowledge and understanding about postpartum depression, anxiety, and psychosis will lead to more moms getting the help they need without shame, blame, and stigma. Show Highlights: Jade’s story: An easy pregnancy and plans for an at-home water birth turned into an induction, epidural, followed by a ventouse/forceps delivery. Immediate feelings of shame and failure for not having the delivery she wanted With a December 2020 birth, COVID lockdowns contributed to Jade’s mental health struggles. The first symptom Jade noticed was anxiety. Social media was…

People in this episode

Host: Katayune Kaeni

Guest: Jade Lloyd

Topics covered

• postpartum psychosis
• mental health
• recovery
• intrusive thoughts
• maternal mental health
• anxiety
• support

Keywords

• postpartum psychosis
• mental health
• anxiety
• recovery
• intrusive thoughts
• maternal mental health
• COVID lockdowns
• support
• shame
• stigma

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UK

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