08/28/2026
Post partum depression and psychosis are real. A woman never has higher hormone levels than when she is pregnant, and they plummet drastically immediately after giving birth- especially, progesterone. Hormones have an enormous impact on brain chemicals so to think that this drastic shift in hormones doesn’t create some major changes in brain chemistry is just ridiculous. We need to talk about this more, we need to research this more and we need to help women!