In this essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Helen Kim (an alumna of the CWMH) discusses the challenges of treating women with severe psychiatric illness during pregnancy:

“Would a physician tell a pregnant woman with epilepsy, ‘Stop your meds and ride out the seizures until you  deliver’? Are the medications of pregnant women with mental illness somehow more “optional”?”

 Read the full article here.

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