Mental Illness and pregnancy?

Kate • 20 year old lesbian with PCOS and Amenorrhea due to atypical anorexia. I'm a total mumma bear and I'm always here if you need to talk
I have severe mental illness and am on a cocktail of medications including seroquel, Effexor, avanza and lithium. I would have to come off a number of these medications if I wanted to become pregnant and would not be able to restart them until after I was no longer breastfeeding, which could mean a possible relapse, as well as any affects the hormones had on my mental health.
If you were in my shoes, would you still be willing to get pregnant and have a child? I'm just curious

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