09/10/2026
This past Tuesday, September 8th, I had the privilege of being selected as an audience member for The The Oprah Podcast Oprah Podcast for a conversation about postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis stemming from the case.
Women shared their stories, doctors gave their perspectives, and journalists and audience members joined the conversation.
Those who know me know I am a huge advocate for health. As someone who knows someone who experienced postpartum psychosis, and as someone who has battled with my own mental health, my heart goes out to these women and their families.
Change happens when we normalize these conversations and take mental health, especially women’s mental health, seriously.
But I also want us to keep that same energy when the woman suffering doesn’t look like Lindsay. Black women experience maternal mental health challenges too, yet our pain can be overlooked, misunderstood or criminalized. Compassion cannot be selective. Who gets grace? Who gets believed? Whose mental illness is recognized before judgment?
I have battled severe depression a couple of times. In 2023, during one of the best AND worst years of my life, I woke up every day wishing I were dead.
So much of my life was everything I had prayed for. So why was I having passive suicidal thoughts?
Add ADHD, where thoughts, especially negative ones, can run through your mind like a hamster on a wheel. All day. Every day.
Mental health doesn’t always look like what we think it should. Someone can be smiling, working, achieving and showing up while fighting a battle inside their own mind.
Today, on World Su***de Prevention Day, I hold space for those who feel like life is a weight they cannot shake. Those contemplating su***de. Those who have attempted. Those we have lost. And those quietly fighting to stay.
We should not judge what we have never had to carry. Listen. Learn. Take people seriously. Extend compassion. And keep talking.
If this resonates, listen to this episode of the The Oprah Podcast and watch my TEDx talk,” Pull Up A Chair” (link in bio) Different conversations, but both remind us why we must talk about what people carry silently.