Postpartum mental health: Where are we failing mothers?
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges of postpartum mental health and the societal response to mothers' mental health issues in Ireland.
The Lindsay Clancy case has raised very difficult questions about the intersection of motherhood, postpartum mental health, and the criminal justice system. It also raises a question closer to home: how well do we actually recognise and respond to serious mental health problems after women give birth here in Ireland? Because for all the focus on the baby and the birth itself, the postpartum period can present a range of physical and psychological challenges, some of which can be very difficult to see, and even harder to talk about. Joining Pat to do just that is Aolish Gormley, Founder of Árdu, a maternal mental health initiative based in Sligo and leading the Year of Care campaign
People in this episode
Host: Pat Kenny
Guest: Aolish Gormley
Topics covered
- postpartum mental health
- motherhood
- criminal justice system
- mental health recognition
- psychological challenges
- maternal mental health
Keywords
- postpartum
- mental health
- motherhood
- Ireland
- psychological challenges
- Lindsay Clancy
- Árdu
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Árdu
Places: Ireland
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