Dr. Julia Nardi-Riddle

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Today, Explained · The Lindsay Clancy murder trial · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

experiences it okay so that's one pregnancy and the postpartum are a very very inflammatory period okay first you're tolerating something that is partially not yours so half of that genetic material is foreign to the body and as pregnancy goes about it can be a very very inflammatory state and if a woman has something like preeclampsia gestational diabetes there can only be more of an inflammatory state so that's another leading theory is that is there an inflammatory

pipeline here?

Is there an inflammatory mediator that's causing this?

Then if you introduce severe sleep disruptions to someone with this vulnerability, right, that seems to be one of the real, real, real risk factors with someone with these vulnerabilities.

And what is the postpartum, the early postpartum, but an exercise in the highest level of sleep disruption, right, that most people will ever experience?

Yeah, so I want to be very clear on something.

The vast majority of women...

incur no violence.

This is rare, treatable, and most women do not act violently.

Not unheard of, which is why we consider it a psychiatric emergency, right?

Not unheard of, particularly suicide.

So we worry even more about suicide, but we worry about both

Because the nature of the illness can involve so much paranoia or these delusional thoughts.

It's not as if you ask a woman who's dealing with these and they just tell you, right?

They're suspicious of the whole world.

It's not that they just say, oh, finally someone's asked, let me share with you all my thoughts.

And I think about our patients, right?

Our patients right now are terrified that, will I become psychotic?

Will I hurt somebody?

So it is treatable.

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