How My Doctors Missed My Antenatal Anxiety

I was in my first trimester of my first pregnancy when antenatal anxiety washed over me like the tide, insidious and unstoppable.  We were living on our own in the midwest at the time, and the loneliness was crushing.  I compensated for my irrational worries by...
How To Beat Postpartum OCD

How To Beat Postpartum OCD

There are a lot of scary things in life that I’m happy to say I’ve never experienced. I’ve never been chased by a bear, for instance. Or fallen off a cruise ship. Or accidentally eaten poisonous mushrooms. I have, however, had postpartum OCD and...

What To Do If You Have Postpartum OCD

As I shared earlier this week, it is possible that postpartum OCD occurs much more often than originally thought, perhaps in as many as 10% of new moms. Since there’s so much discussion about postpartum OCD in the news, I wanted to make sure we talked a little...