“There’s no such thing as postpartum depression.” These were the unsolicited words from my obstetrician in the third trimester of my first pregnancy. “It’s only sleep deprivation,” she explained. As an MD, I’d been taught there was indeed such a thing as postpartum depression. But as the patient in that interaction, a pregnant woman, I
The harm of the “just do it” culture in medicine: a story of postpartum depression originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
