Mental Health in Practice
Practical conversations about mental health care across Australia’s health system.
Mental Health in Practice is a podcast for health professionals working across the mental health system, featuring conversations grounded in real-world experience.
Each episode brings together perspectives from clinical practice, research, and sector expertise to explore contemporary mental health care.
The show focuses on what thoughtful, collaborative care looks like in practice – and how professionals across disciplines can better support mental health outcomes for Australians.
Mental Health in Practice
In The First Person: A Mother's Experience of Postpartum Psychosis
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“I just remember thinking he could be someone else's baby and I was just holding him.”
Ariane, mother of Henry, former elite dancer, child services caseworker, and psychologist and now advocate, shares her raw and unedited account of the experience and clinical treatment of postpartum psychosis.
Listen in as Ariane shares her powerful story of being a first-time mum experiencing psychosis. What did the psychosis feel like? How did she find being in a Mother and Baby Unit? What were the personal and system barriers that impeded her health seeking behaviour? What was the impact of receiving incorrect diagnoses? What were the triggers for her recovery?
Be reminded of the power of feeling safe and seen and feel inspired by Ariane’s “renewed sense of purpose and drive to support the next group of mothers to come through.”
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