Dr Simone Show - The Duality of Motherhood with guest Angela Burling

Angela Burling earned her master’s in nursing from California State University, Sacramento writing her thesis in 1991: “Screening Practices of Health Care Practitioners for Postpartum Mental Illness.” Her story was published in 2014 in “Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery: Stories of Hope.” In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s she appeared on a dozen talk shows including Donahue, Oprah and Live on Larry King. Patty Duke narrated a documentary about her experience in 1989, and recently Angela has been interviewed for two documentaries which are in production. She has been married for twenty-one years and is the proud mother of two adult children. Angela currently volunteers in the community as a health educator and is on the Board of Postpartum Support International. At her core is the desire to bring understanding about a tragic and misunderstood condition affecting mothers.

Do you know what most people think of when they hear about post-partum depression or psychosis?

Find out more about cases that exemplifies this condition.   

What the different diagnostic conditions are? 

Learn first hand about Angela's personal experience with post-partum.

What helped Angela get through this difficult time? 

What she sees as the failure of the medical and legal (including police force) systems!

What she filled her life with? How she coped since her experience? 

What advice she has to post-partum women who might be at risk?

What are the major changes she''d like to see re. this subject?

Learn more about the upcoming national Maternal Mental Health Day ...