Katherine Stone is a nationally-recognized, award-winning advocate for women with perinatal mood and anxiety disord... more

Katherine Stone is a nationally-recognized, award-winning advocate for women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

In 2001, she suffered postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder after the birth of her first child. The feeling of isolation and shame she suffered inspired her to create Postpartum Progress, which has become the most widely-read blog in the United States on postpartum depression, postpartum OCD, antepartum depression, postpartum PTSD and postpartum psychosis. Because of this work, Katherine Stone was chosen by WebMD as one of its four 2008 Health Heroes.

Postpartum Progress (http://postpartumprogress.typepad.com) was selected as one of the top 10 depression blogs by Psych Central in 2007 and 2008, and is also listed as one of the top 10 mental health blogs on the web at Blogs.com.

Stone has served as guest editor on the topic of postpartum depression at BlogHer (www.blogher.com), the world's top community for and guide to blogs by women. She currently