Does any mum on here suffer from anxiety/depression

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Want to hear everyone's experiences and how yous cope from day to day?

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Just talked to a therapist yesterday for the first time ever. She said I have high anxiety and now we are on the road to "recovery" and learning to cope.

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I've had depression and anxiety ( w PTSD and mild social anxiety) for around 10 years and it's very hard, my baby is 7 months old and even though I feel a lot better now, I was very very suicidal before and during my pregnancy, it's still a constant battle, I have bad days where I just want to sleep all day long but I can't, I need to take care of him because I'm his only caregiver, I don't have any friends so I'm at home all day. I'm trying to get better on my own (I don't want to go back to therapy) but it's so difficult. I had a really hard time bonding with my son due to depression but breastfeeding has helped me a lot, I think breastfeeding has helped me more than anything, it makes me so happy

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Yea, like the other lady I have struggled with depression and bi polar for the majority of my life. I never liked medicine or thought I needed it until this pregnancy. I always just sat through my depression cried through the thoughts of suicide or feeling like the world would be better off because my first child doesnt think that way so neither should I. My anxiety is out of the roof sometimes random sometimes i know what will bring it on.

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I suffer from both and have since I was a teenager, it got bad after having my daughter almost 4 years ago. I had some really bad days at the start I cried all the time lived in the dark basically just lived in our bedroom never left. All of my mental health check ins after bubs where worrying to my baby nurse but I wasn’t ready to admit it After a few months I reached out for some extra help, I was placed on antidepressants again to help, because I wasn’t improving on my own. I wouldn’t let others hold or look after my daughter even for 5 minutes, I would get extremely anxious when anyone would pick up my child I never wanted to be without her. After my meds started working the crying settled, I wasn’t as anxious with her I would let others hold her and not freak out every second. I still have bad days but I am aware and will tell my partner or reach out to my mum if I need a hand or anything. I recently stopped due to being pregnant but my doctors are aware of my history and are going to make sure I have someone to talk to if I need to at any stage during my pregnancy or after so I don’t get trapped again like I did with my first

Does any mum on here suffer from anxiety/depression

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