If you are struggling after childbirth, the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline is free and confidential, 24 hours a day, at 1-833-TLC-MAMA. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org.
A psychiatrist who supervised a patient's discharge from McLean Hospital testified under cross-examination last week that in more than 20 years of practice, she had never treated a patient with postpartum psychosis. Dr. Alia Goodheart's admission came at the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy in Plymouth Superior Court, and it pointed to something larger than one case: the specialist network for this condition is extraordinarily thin.
