A charming exchange at my local surgery today: Me: “Hi, I’m here to pick up a prescription”. The lady behind the counter finishes her biscuit, pushing the final crumbs into her mouth with her fingertip, before asking, “What’s the na...

Science Daily reported this week on a new study published March 7 in Lancet finding that women's support groups "have had a dramatic effect on reducing neonatal mortality rates" in India, while also significantly reducing postpartum...

Wow. On March 12, the NYT published an article about Mommy Bloggers entitled Honey, Don’t bother Mommy. I’m too busy building my brand. I needed a good hard smack in the face to wake me up. A good reminder as to why I, an alleged M...

Mother Nature has really let loose in NJ this year. First, the East Coast had snow, the likes of which we hadn't seen in 35 years. And now for the last two days, rain. Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day. Rain so hard I s...

Many thanks to postpartum psychosis survivor Heather for sending me links to these videos about postpartum psychosis on EmpowHer that she felt would be informative and helpful to Postpartum Progress readers: Why Are Moms With Postpa...

I recently stumbled across an Internet site that had “Gimick” and “Scam” written all over it.  How could I tell?  Well, from some clearcut indicators in the form of catch phrases like “get cured today” or “cure your PPD fast” or “st...

Thanks to Kim Schworm Acosta for giving me the heads up on this interview on WBUR (NPR in Boston) with Dr. Jeanne Watson Driscoll about postpartum depression and the issue of legislating PPD screening. Listen in by following the lin...

We already know that women who suffer a miscarriage are at a higher risk of developing postpartum depression. A study just published in the journal General Hospital Psychiatry bears this out. It found that 13% of the women in Hong K...

More and more mothers these days are turning to exclusively pumping for their babies according to an article over at Time Magazine. Why? The article gives several reasons from not wanting a baby at your breast to “having other thing...

Wednesday, March 10 at 4:45 p.m. The phone rings. "What do you think of the idea of me trying bilateral?" Angela asked. Her psychiatrist in charge of her current course of Electroconvulsive Therapy had raised the issue in a telephon...

A company called M-3 Information has developed a free, online checklist that research shows can accurately indicate whether a patient may have depression, anxiety, PTSD or bipolar disorder. The study will be published in the March/A...

Sorry it's been a bit of a slow week here on PP. I was traveling mid-week to do a speech to a chapter of the Georgia Nurses Association about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. (Hi ladies, if any of you are reading this!) I had a...

I have been reading some AA blogs, after a near slip late last month, and attending meetings. I've had near slips before but this one rocked me to the core, I was so close, I could taste it. I started having drinking dreams, I knew...

I resisted the temptation of writing about Corey Haim, the child star whose career - and, ultimately, his life - ended before he got old, even if he was old in spirit.To a writer, however, Hollywood and its actors are, in some cases...

I just wrapped up reading a post over at Her Bad Mother, If Prayers were Horses, Grievers would Ride. She’s talking about the recent death of her father and how to cope with her daughter’s questions about death. The post itself does...

A few years ago a colleague used a term that I hadn't heard before.  When I asked her about what she meant by "that's how my bucket is filled" she referred to a book that she was reading and held it up for me to see.  Though I didn'...

To paraphrase Bob Woodward, journalists – and their readers – should seek the truth or, more realistically, the “most obtainable version” of it.But in its coverage of crime that involves people with mental illness, the media has con...

I am hating every single second of therapy.  I leave every appointment feeling awful and spend the next few days miserable. That is all. Filed under: Bipolar Disorder ...

Let’s face it – if Alice were a new mother, it wouldn’t have been a rabbit after which she tumbled down a dark hole. No, it would have been the spiraling mental anguish of a sheer lack of sleep due to the sudden presence of a very s...