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There is a massive blind spot in perinatal mental health: the failure to investigate root causes. This episode is a fierce wake-up call. 

Postpartum professionals, stop watching new moms get a PPD/PPA label when their body is screaming for help. That crippling fatigue, brain fog, and anxiety is often a symptom of profound physiological imbalance, not just a psychiatric one. We’re exposing the epidemic of undiagnosed medical conditions—like Hashimoto's, severe iron deficiency, and B12 depletion—that mimic PPD. If you want lasting solutions and to quit playing symptom whack-a-mole, you must learn to spot the "Anxious Mother" and "Depleted Mom" patterns and confidently demand the life-saving comprehensive labs that reveal the truth.

Check out the episode on the blog HERE: https://postpartumu.com/podcast/when-its-not-depression-misdiagnosed-mental-health-in-postpartum-ep-236/

Key time stamps: 

• 0:00The Crisis in Postpartum Care
•  1:10 Sarah’s Story: Misdiagnosed and Depleted
• 3:37 Labs No One Ordered
• 6:58 Maranda’s Postpartum Wake-Up Call
• 11:42 Stats That Should Make You Angry
• 15:02 Symptom Whack-a-Mole in Clinics
• 17:49 Screening Limits and Missed Needs
• 21: 16 Pattern One: The Anxious Mother
• 24:32 Pattern Two: The Depleted Mom
• 27:12 Thyroid Truths Postpartum
• 31:09 Inflammation as a Driver
• 33:35 A New Model: Root-Cause Training
• 37:12 The Cost of Misdiagnosis
• 40:22 What Moms and Providers Can Do

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