The AlMaghrib Podcast
Postpartum Depression, Baby Blues or Psychosis?
With Ust. Sarah Sultan1 hr 5 minOct 3, 202616K views
How do you tell the baby blues from postpartum depression, and when does it become an emergency? Ustadha Sarah Sultan is a licensed professional counselor and an AlMaghrib instructor. She sits down with AlMaghrib host Hafsah Tarar for an honest conversation about maternal mental health. The recent high-profile case of Lindsay Clancy has raised a lot of questions in the community, and this episode tries to answer them with care.
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In this episode
- 0:00 Intro
- 2:33 Why new mothers are at risk: hormones, sleep and isolation
- 5:17 Baby blues: what's normal
- 7:08 Postpartum depression: 1 in 7 mothers
- 9:39 Postpartum psychosis: a medical emergency
- 12:13 How husbands can support a new mother
- 16:22 Rebuilding the village: family, friends and the 40 days
- 23:49 What the community and masajid can do better
- 31:15 Preparing during pregnancy and spotting the signs
- 33:46 Getting help: therapy and medication
- 40:01 Mom rage and intrusive thoughts: when to worry
- 43:32 Intrusive thoughts, waswasa or psychosis?
- 46:53 Does needing help mean weak iman?
- 50:18 What worship looks like as a new mother
- 54:42 Making sense of tragedy and protecting yourself from it
- 1:03:22 Final reminders
About the show
Long conversations with scholars, imams and the people building Muslim communities, hosted by Sh. Ammar AlShukry. New episodes on YouTube.
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