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Podcast: Our birth story – 40 years of PANDA and perinatal mental health in Australia

When PANDA began in Ann Lanigan’s Melbourne lounge room in the 1980s, there was nothing else like it in the country.

Ann experienced postnatal depression after the birth of her third child, and only got the help she needed by pure luck. And that’s how she describes the perinatal mental health system at the time – a total lottery, with very few parents getting the treatment they needed.

But during Ann’s recovery, she made it her mission to connect with other women who had experienced the same thing. From that moment a community grew and changed the lives of the people it touched for the better.

This episode of Survive & Thrive is a little different. You’ll hear PANDA CEO Julie Borninkhof in conversation with two people critical in PANDA’s formation, Ann Lanigan and Professor Dorothy Scott OAM.

Together they trace the organisation back to its roots and look at how far we’ve come – and the distance we still have to go – with treating perinatal mental health in Australia.

Survive & Thrive is a podcast from Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia (PANDA), find it in your favourite podcast app.

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Host: Gia Hogarth

PANDA Digital Editor: Serena Ashmore

PANDA Commissioning Editor: Bec Shafer

Deadset Studios Senior Producer: Grace Pashley

Deadset Studios Executive Producer: Rachel Fountain

Sound Design by Krissy Miltiadou

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