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Perinatal OCD: When ‘the happiest time of your life’ turns dark.

Perinatal OCD: When ‘the happiest time of your life’ turns dark.

Update: 2025-10-26
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This week is all about perinatal OCD, and it’s a biggie. Penny and Ange chat to perinatal and reproductive psychiatrist Dr Edna Lekgabe and clinical psychologist Dr kit Casey. In the discussion they talk about:


  • What perinatal OCD is

  • How the brain fundamentally changes during matrescence

  • Who gets perinatal OCD and why

  • Some of the common ( and extremely difficult obsessions that come up with perinatal OCD)

  • The ‘professionalisation of parenthood’

  • The loneliness of experiencing perinatal OCD

  • Why it’s so commonly misdiagnosed/missed altogether

  • Medication throughout the perinatal period




 
Matrescence by Lucy jones 
Self compassion episode with Andrea 
Pharmacist Rodney White at Monash medical centre; 03 9594 2361
Royal women’s hospital medicines information service:03 8345 3190
PANDA 1300 726 306
Lifeline https://www.lifeline.org.au/ 13 11 14
Pregnancy birth and baby 1800 882 436
COPE centre of perinatal excellence 
SANDS miscarriage, stillbirth and newborn death support 
OCD Bounce 
So OCD 
Health direct(info for service around Australia)
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Perinatal OCD: When ‘the happiest time of your life’ turns dark.

Perinatal OCD: When ‘the happiest time of your life’ turns dark.

Penny Moodie and Angie Greene