Deborah Becker
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439 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 5d ago
Deborah Becker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Postpartum depression is said to happen to about one in seven new mothers.
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Postpartum psychosis is not as common, occurring in one to two of every one thousand births, and that's according to the Cleveland Clinic.
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And basically, psychosis is losing touch with reality.
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And several postpartum experts say it's not well understood, but it can be treated if it's successfully diagnosed.
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Now, postpartum psychosis is not listed as its own illness in the DSM, although advocates are feverishly trying to change that.
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I spoke with Dr.
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Aruj Kamal Heder, who's an academic perinator.
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psychiatrist about this.
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She says more people need to be educated about the symptoms of postpartum psychosis because it's often misdiagnosed.
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I also spoke with a mom who experienced postpartum psychosis.
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Her name is Megan Cliffle, and she said one day when her second child was eight months old, she lost touch with reality.
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It's wild.
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but in a diluted reality.
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She said she went to work that day and she was functioning, but her thoughts kept spiraling.
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And I went
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Cliffle says she was hallucinating and she thought that if she proved that she would jump off the roof of her New York apartment building, she might save herself and her children.
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She ended up physically fighting with her husband when he tried to intervene.
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My husband's got our two
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She was committed to a psychiatric hospital for 12 days and started taking medication, but it was a while before she got a diagnosis.
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