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neuroscience with soul for seekers🌿and system misfits 😎

I understand why this case is being celebrated as a win for maternal mental health.I just don’t think it is.Because some...
08/24/2026

I understand why this case is being celebrated as a win for maternal mental health.

I just don’t think it is.

Because somewhere, a new mother is having a horrifying, unwanted thought about harming her baby and wondering, What if this means I’m capable of doing it?

Somewhere else, a woman who desperately needs psychiatric treatment is reading that Lindsay Clancy was “overmedicated,” “put on 13 medications,” and “begged for help while doctors just threw pills at her.”

And she’s getting a little more afraid of medication.

That’s what worries me.

The Lindsay Clancy case involves profound mental illness, complicated treatment, changing diagnoses, medication starts and stops, retrospective reports, competing expert interpretations, and now enormous legal stakes.

That complexity has been flattened into a very compelling story:

She asked for help. Psychiatry failed her. Medication made her worse.

But a compelling story is not necessarily an accurate one.

And when we’re talking about maternal mental health, accuracy matters.

Unwanted, ego-dystonic intrusive thoughts about harming your baby can be terrifying. They do not mean you want to hurt your child or that you will.

Psychiatric medications aren’t evidence that your provider isn’t listening to you. Sometimes medication is the help.

Lindsay was suffering from profound mental illness while struggling with fear and ambivalence about medication. It was a common story.

Somehow, the story being told about her case will probably leave other mothers more afraid to seek the very treatment that could help them.

That’s not the mental health victory I want.

08/22/2026

“Do your own research.”

Actually? Yes. Please do.

But somewhere along the way, “do your own research” started meaning:

Google it until you find something that confirms what you already wanted to believe.

That is not research.

Research is checking the original source. Looking at the quality of the evidence. Asking whether one study has been replicated. Looking at what the larger body of evidence says.

And if your afternoon of Googling leads you to a conclusion that contradicts the consensus of major medical and scientific organizations, that doesn’t automatically mean you’ve uncovered something they all missed.

It might mean you should ask why your sources are telling a dramatically different story.

Question authority? Absolutely.

Science should withstand scrutiny.

But skepticism means applying scrutiny to all claims, including the ones you really, really want to be true.

Otherwise, we’re not doing our own research.

We’re just looking for Internet Marilyn Manson Kid to tell us we were right.

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✨ COMING OCTOBER 1: HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AT WYLDE COLLECTIVE ✨Because apparently “you’re a woman, hormones are we...
08/21/2026

✨ COMING OCTOBER 1: HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AT WYLDE COLLECTIVE ✨

Because apparently “you’re a woman, hormones are weird, good luck out there” was the treatment plan for a little too long. 🙃

Women have spent decades being told that exhaustion, brain fog, mood changes, sleep disruption, changes in libido, and generally feeling like an unfamiliar person inhabiting their body are things we should simply… ✨deal with✨.

Respectfully, no. 💅

Starting October 1, Wylde Collective will be offering comprehensive hormone evaluations and HRT when clinically appropriate, with the same approach I bring to mental health care: evidence-based, individualized, collaborative, and deeply uninterested in dismissing your symptoms just because they’re complicated.

Your hormones don’t exist in a separate little administrative department from your brain. Mood, sleep, cognition, anxiety, energy, sexual health, and physical health are all part of the same wildly interconnected human.

So we’re going to start treating them that way.

Consider this another tiny step in the ongoing female tradition of saying:

“Actually, I’d like to feel good.”

Revolutionary stuff. 🤣

More details coming soon. 🌿

08/19/2026

So a lot of you have been asking for a video of me eating s**t trying to ride a very phallic-shaped capybara float.

Hope this helps. 🤍

I think the Lindsay Clancy case resonates so deeply with women for reasons that extend far beyond the facts of this part...
08/17/2026

I think the Lindsay Clancy case resonates so deeply with women for reasons that extend far beyond the facts of this particular case.

Because so many women know what it feels like to enter motherhood and think:

Why did no one tell me it could feel like this?

To be exhausted beyond recognition. Anxious. Overwhelmed. Unable to sleep even when the baby sleeps. To have frightening, intrusive thoughts that make you wonder what the hell is happening to your brain. To tell someone you aren’t okay and still somehow feel like no one quite understands how not okay you are.

That shared experience deserves to be heard.

But it does not mean Lindsay Clancy’s providers failed her.

And it does not mean that recognizing pieces of yourself in her story makes you anything like the person at the center of this tragedy.

Ego-dystonic intrusive thoughts about harm are extraordinarily different from wanting to harm your child. Anxiety is not psychosis. Insomnia is not mania. Feeling worse after starting a medication does not automatically establish that the medication caused mania or psychosis. And being prescribed 13 medications over several months does not mean someone was taking 13 medications simultaneously.

This case was a horrific convergence of psychiatric illness, suffering, treatment attempts, uncertainty, and ultimately an unimaginable tragedy.

We don’t have to distort any of those pieces to take postpartum mental health seriously.

Maybe that’s the part of this story worth holding onto:

You can see yourself in the drowning without seeing yourself in what happened next.

If you were a new mother who was terrified by your own thoughts, who felt unlike yourself, who couldn’t sleep, who begged someone to understand how badly you were struggling…

You were not secretly dangerous.

You were a human being who needed support.

And you deserved to be heard.

08/15/2026

You’re telling me I’m supposed to tap on my face and somehow feel better?

…kind of. 😂

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), often called tapping, combines focused attention on an emotional experience with rhythmic tapping on specific points of the body.

And while it may look a little ✨woo-adjacent✨, there’s actually growing research suggesting EFT may help reduce symptoms of anxiety, stress, and emotional distress.

Think of it less as “tapping the anxiety away” and more as giving your brain something new to experience while the alarm system is activated:

I can notice this feeling.
I can stay in my body.
And I can be safe while it’s here.

No fighting the feeling.
No aggressively telling yourself to “CALM DOWN.”
No pretending everything is fine while your nervous system is setting off every smoke detector in the building. 🚨

Just a little rhythmic input, attention, and space for your physiology to shift.

Will tapping solve every problem you’ve ever had? Absolutely not.

Can it be another tool in your nervous-system toolbox?

Tap tap, baby. 👆🧠✨

EFT is a complementary strategy and isn’t a replacement for appropriate mental health or medical treatment.

Your brain doesn’t need a motivational speech. It needs better architecture. 🧠🔨Building a habit isn’t:“I’ve decided I’m ...
08/11/2026

Your brain doesn’t need a motivational speech. It needs better architecture. 🧠🔨

Building a habit isn’t:
“I’ve decided I’m a person who wakes up at 5am, meditates, journals, drinks 97 ounces of water and has achieved enlightenment by breakfast.”

It’s cue → behavior → reward → repeat.

Start embarrassingly small.
Make the cue obvious.
Make the behavior easy.
Make the payoff immediate enough that your brain gives a damn.
Then repeat it until your brain stops filing it under “new thing requiring effort.”

Motivation is moody. Systems are much less dramatic.

Build the path you want your brain to take, then walk it enough times that it becomes the path of least resistance. 🌿

There are some thoughts people are afraid to say out loud.“What if I drop the baby?”“What if I hurt them?”“What if I los...
08/07/2026

There are some thoughts people are afraid to say out loud.

“What if I drop the baby?”
“What if I hurt them?”
“What if I lose control?”

And then comes the thought about the thought:

What kind of person thinks that?

A human one.

Our brains are prediction machines. They generate possibilities, including frightening ones, especially around the people and things we care most deeply about.

An ego-dystonic intrusive thought is unwanted. It feels disturbing precisely because it conflicts with your values, desires and sense of self.

The thought isn’t a confession.
It isn’t a secret wish.
And it isn’t, by itself, evidence of psychosis.

Fear-based intrusive thoughts about infant harm are remarkably common in the postpartum period, including thoughts involving intentional harm. Yet because of the shame attached to them, many new parents are terrified to tell anyone.

That silence matters.

Because a parent who is horrified by an unwanted thought and a parent experiencing impaired reality testing, delusions or hallucinations are describing very different clinical experiences, even if the subject matter sounds frighteningly similar from the outside.

We need enough nuance to tell the difference.

And enough compassion that parents can tell us what’s happening inside their heads without fearing that the thought itself makes them dangerous.

Sometimes a scary thought is just a scared brain doing what brains do: imagining the thing it most desperately wants to prevent. You’re doing a great job, mama.🧠

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I went back and forth on whether to post this.Not because I don’t have thoughts, but because I have too many.Like so man...
08/05/2026

I went back and forth on whether to post this.

Not because I don’t have thoughts, but because I have too many.

Like so many people, this case has left me heartbroken. As a psychiatric provider, it’s also left me asking difficult questions about assessment, uncertainty, hindsight, and the stories we tell ourselves after tragedy.

One thing I’ve noticed is how quickly our minds reach for certainty. We want to know exactly who failed, exactly what should have happened, exactly how this could have been prevented. That response is deeply human. Certainty helps us feel safer.

But sometimes certainty arrives before understanding.

No part of this post intends to diminish the loss of these innocent children or the profound grief of their families. It is intended to encourage my fellow humans to resist the temptation to collapse a profoundly complex human tragedy into a story that makes us feel more comfortable.

I hope it reminds us to choose curiosity over certainty, humility over hindsight, and compassion over the comfort of simple explanations.

08/05/2026

Your nervous system doesn’t respond to commands. 🤨
It wants EVIDENCE of safety. It wants the receipts. 🧾

It’s looking for permission to calm down by checking your
🫀 Heart rate.
🫁 Breath.
💪 Muscle tension.
👀 Facial expressions.
🤝 Human connection.
🛌 Rest.
🧘🏽 Mindfulness.

Before your brain can believe you’re safe, your body often has to feel it. It understands the experience of safety, so give it just that.

Start with the body.
The mind usually follows.

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