Crazy mood swings after drying up breast milk? Or is this ppd? My LO is 16 weeks and just dried up last week. Since then, I’ve been having extreme anxiety to the point of nausea along with mood swings. It’s not consistent though. It comes and goes. I do have a history of depression but I haven’t taken meds for it since 2012. I decided to stop taking it because I didn’t like the way the side effects made me feel. Most days, weeks, and even months I would be fine but then it would hit me and it would hit HARD. This is not something I’m very open about but since I have a baby now, I feel the need to speak up. It seems as if these feels came out of no where!

Here’s a few other things I’ve been feeling lately: I feel like I’m drowning.

I feel like I’m a failure as a mother.

I don’t feel like myself.

I HATE my PP body. (I had low self esteem/ confidence before I got pregnant)

I have weird thoughts about what I would do if anything ever happened to my baby girl.

I cry over the littlest things then when I calm down, I’ll sometimes have outbursts.

I feel overwhelmed.

I run unrealistic senecios through my head.

I feel like I’m loosing my mind.

The past few mornings I wake up, I’m instantly overcome with anxiety.

One more thing, I’m a stay at home mom. Is it normal to feel this way? Am I just a little stir crazy? Please send words of encouragement. I just want to feel like me again.