Postpartum depression
Subject in Mental Health
Postpartum depression has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Morbid, Call Her Daddy. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Alanis MorissetteCanadian-American singer-songwriter known for the 1995 album Jagged Little Pill
Morissette argues the solution for new mothers is communal care and honoring the female endocrine system as a spiritual practice.
“the solve for women is us going back to how we used to live. which is honoring the female endocrine system as a spiritual fricking practice”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 51:21
Morissette says the hardest loss during postpartum depression was other people's trust in her sanity.
“And the bummer for me inside PPD was that I was losing people's trust in my sanity”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 50:15
Morissette says she toured while experiencing postpartum psychosis and was called crazy by people in the business.
“but i still showed up like i was i dipped into psychosis it was a wild ride”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 48:46
Morissette says she sought help progressively faster after each birth, waiting over a year the first time and three days the third.
“first time i waited a year and two months second time i waited eight months and third time i think i waited three days”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 48:00
Alaina UrquhartCo-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels
Urquhart endorsed the listener's strategy of treating small pleasures like podcasts as rewards for completing tasks.
“This is actually a really smart thing to do too. Yeah. I want to start treating things like a reward to make me do things”
Morbid: Listener Tales 114: Back to School Tales (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 18:35
Podcasts
- Morbid · 1 episode
- Call Her Daddy · 1 episode
Episodes
Listener Tales 114: Back to School TalesMorbid · Sep 28, 2026 · 54 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart, costumed as Miss Trunchbull and Miss Frizzle, read back-to-school listener tales about haunted schools and a haunted college house.
Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & PostpartumCall Her Daddy · Sep 9, 2026 · 1 h 5 min
Alanis Morissette tells Alex Cooper about her 1990s breakthrough, industry misogyny, attachment wounds, postpartum depression and the freedom of menopause.