Dr. Julie Smith

A woman's mental health is never more vulnerable than in the first year after she's given birth, through her whole life. If you take anyone and you want to kind of break them down, you would mess about with their routine, take sleep out of the equation, and you'd isolate them from other people. After a woman's had a baby, all of those things, which are weapons of war, by the way, are affected.

A woman's mental health is never more vulnerable than in the first year after she's given birth, through her whole life. If you take anyone and you want to kind of break them down, you would mess about with their routine, take sleep out of the equation, and you'd isolate them from other people. After a woman's had a baby, all of those things, which are weapons of war, by the way, are affected.

A woman's mental health is never more vulnerable than in the first year after she's given birth, through her whole life. If you take anyone and you want to kind of break them down, you would mess about with their routine, take sleep out of the equation, and you'd isolate them from other people. After a woman's had a baby, all of those things, which are weapons of war, by the way, are affected.

Saying don't compare yourself is like saying don't breathe, right? We are social beings. Our ability to compare is actually a real strength, but when it goes wrong, we're making the wrong comparisons.

Saying don't compare yourself is like saying don't breathe, right? We are social beings. Our ability to compare is actually a real strength, but when it goes wrong, we're making the wrong comparisons.

Saying don't compare yourself is like saying don't breathe, right? We are social beings. Our ability to compare is actually a real strength, but when it goes wrong, we're making the wrong comparisons.

Yeah, it's probably one of the most common questions I get, actually. Really?

Yeah, it's probably one of the most common questions I get, actually. Really?

Yeah, it's probably one of the most common questions I get, actually. Really?

Yeah, yeah. So a psychiatrist will train in medicine, and then they'll choose psychiatry as opposed to working in the ER or in general practice. They'll kind of go off into mental health that way, but their focus is generally diagnosis and medications and stuff like that. Some of them,

Yeah, yeah. So a psychiatrist will train in medicine, and then they'll choose psychiatry as opposed to working in the ER or in general practice. They'll kind of go off into mental health that way, but their focus is generally diagnosis and medications and stuff like that. Some of them,

Yeah, yeah. So a psychiatrist will train in medicine, and then they'll choose psychiatry as opposed to working in the ER or in general practice. They'll kind of go off into mental health that way, but their focus is generally diagnosis and medications and stuff like that. Some of them,

train in kind of therapeutic um sort of talking therapies and stuff like that but mostly that in my experience of working with them they're mostly focused on medications whereas psychologists uh start with a psychology degree and then go on to do a doctorate in clinical psychology so they're always focused on that kind of formulation and talking therapies and those kind of things so it's you know the same work but from different angles coming from different trainings um

train in kind of therapeutic um sort of talking therapies and stuff like that but mostly that in my experience of working with them they're mostly focused on medications whereas psychologists uh start with a psychology degree and then go on to do a doctorate in clinical psychology so they're always focused on that kind of formulation and talking therapies and those kind of things so it's you know the same work but from different angles coming from different trainings um

train in kind of therapeutic um sort of talking therapies and stuff like that but mostly that in my experience of working with them they're mostly focused on medications whereas psychologists uh start with a psychology degree and then go on to do a doctorate in clinical psychology so they're always focused on that kind of formulation and talking therapies and those kind of things so it's you know the same work but from different angles coming from different trainings um

So the psychiatrist is the medical side. Psychologist is psychology.

So the psychiatrist is the medical side. Psychologist is psychology.

So the psychiatrist is the medical side. Psychologist is psychology.

You're tracking? Don't quiz me on it. But then you can always have a therapist as well that isn't necessarily a psychologist. But they've trained because there are lots of different modalities of therapy. And, you know, some people might start off as a mental health nurse and then they might train in one or two kind of therapies and they just do those ones.

You're tracking? Don't quiz me on it. But then you can always have a therapist as well that isn't necessarily a psychologist. But they've trained because there are lots of different modalities of therapy. And, you know, some people might start off as a mental health nurse and then they might train in one or two kind of therapies and they just do those ones.