Depression and anxiety making me a bad mom.
I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety when I was 12 years old. My mom didn't want to put me on medication so she just sent me to a string of therapists until I moved in with my dad when I was 14. (I moved back with her a year later and asked if I could go back to one of the therapists I had seen and she said that she couldn't afford it. Which really makes me feel like she doesn't really believe that I have these "issues")
Anyway! I have a one year old son and since the very beginning I've felt like my depression/anxiety is really making me a terrible parent and to just getting worse and worse.
I'm at the point where I never leave the house, I hardly get out of bed other than to feed my son-then I give him toys and put him in bed with me. I hardly get out of my pajamas unless I haw to (for example if I HAVE to leave the house to go to the doctor or something).
The worst part is I can feel the.. Irritable/rage part of depression setting in and I find myself getting angry at my son for the littlest things.
I'm also 28 weeks pregnant and I'm just so scared of this getting even worse and effecting my children even more.
I feel like such a horrible mother and I don't know what to do about it. I had been going back and forth about getting on medication before I found out I was pregnant but I'm afraid that no one actually thinks that I'm depressed.
People have suggested trying to get family to watch my son so i can have a little time off every now and then but they won't. Wen I ask my mom to watch him for a couple hours or just even so I can take a shower she says "you're the mom. You can figure it out"
I dot know what do, I feel like I'm ruining my kids lives.
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