Avera and Sanford experts said the Lindsay Clancy trial has sharpened attention on postpartum mental health, urging women and families to seek help and treat warning signs as medical issues.
Postpartum psychosis is rare—now estimated at one to two cases per 1,000—but any psychosis is an immediate psychiatric emergency because it involves losing touch with reality.
Doctors said depression risk is not confined to the postpartum period and stressed that de-stigmatizing both postpartum depression and psychosis can make treatment more accessible.
Clinicians also urged partners and supporters to respond carefully—asking how to help rather than judging—while pointing women to available pregnancy and postpartum mental-health resources.