214: Owning Your Story and Surviving Postpartum Psychosis with Ayana Lage
Conversations with Cam
Dear Media
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Ayana Lage to discuss her experience with postpartum psychosis, from how her symptoms began to develop after giving birth; to what led to her commitment to a psychiatric ward; to how she made a full recovery and emerged empowered about her story. Ayana shares what her relationship with her mental health was before and during her pregnancy, why the line between postpartum exhaustion and postpartum depression is so confusing, and what it felt like in the throes of her psychosis. She talks about what it was like within the psychiatric ward, how she experienced PTSD after her experience, what she hopes others take away from her experience and own about their postpartum stories, and much more. Thank you to Ayana for being so vulnerable and brave and reminding us that we are never alone, whatever our mental health experiences have been.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- On the process of choosing to publicly share her experience with postpartum psychosis
- Ayana’s relationship with her mental health before and during her pregnancy
- The confusing line between postpartum exhaustion and postpartum depression
- How Ayana felt immediately after giving birth and how her postpartum psychosis progressed
- How it felt to experience delusions and what led to her commitment to a psychiatric ward
- Ayana’s experience within the psychiatric ward
- How Ayana began her recovery, the PTSD she experienced afterwards, and how she plans to prepare for another pregnancy in the future
- On what she hopes others take away from her experience
- On overcoming shame about her experience and embracing her story
- On how being a black woman affected Ayana’s overall medical experience
- How Ayana feels more empowered now from her experience
Listen to my conversation with FF Fam member, Michelle, on postpartum depression here
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| 0:52.6 | Hello from maternity leave. And as always, thank you for continuing to support the show and the content I put out there. It means the world to me to be able to spend this time with my family. And specifically this time is something that is wildly important to me because I feel I want to give |
| 1:14.8 | myself this space to really mentally, like, adapt to all of the changes, whether it be hormonal |
| 1:22.9 | or lifestyle, that come with a child and take the time to be present for all of that. And that is |
| 1:29.2 | a large focus of today's episode. I am so honored that our guest, Iana Lange, felt comfortable |
| 1:39.7 | to come on here and share so honestly and vulnerably about her experience because I think the more |
| 1:48.1 | we can have these conversations, the more a hopeful support we can get during these times, |
| 1:56.4 | but be, the less alone other people can feel if they are experiencing something similar. |
| 2:03.0 | So I followed Ayanna for, I don't know, like I think maybe a few years now. |
| 2:09.4 | I don't know, but we have like been kind of quiet followers of each other, but I've always |
| 2:14.4 | known who she was. |
| 2:15.3 | I've consumed her content, et cetera. |
| 2:17.2 | And I saw that she |
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