'If you could have the next Prozac, that’s intoxicating': Sage’s postpartum depression triumph and the failure that followed
In 2015, psychiatrist Samantha Meltzer-Brody saw an unbelievable transformation in a new mother who had been admitted to her psychiatry clinic. Withdrawn and having suicidal thoughts, the woman was infused with an experimental drug. Within 24 hours, she brightened and was eating, talking and smiling.
“It was like when you come home from your summer vacation, and your flowers are all dried up and wilted,” said Meltzer-Brody, a researcher and chair of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Then they get a great soaking of water, and everybody perks up.”
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