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Prenatal depression.

Chey🌷 • Fri, Aug 19

At the end of April I moved two hours away from home to be with my boyfriend. A couple weeks after I moved I found out I was pregnant. Since then I have started a new job, which I recently walked out on and now I'm waiting for my new job to start, the bills have piled up, I'm hormonal and crazy, and my brother passed away a few weeks ago. We were fighting at the time of his death.

I have always struggled with depression but I haven't felt this bad in a very long time. Even at the times I am so excited to be welcoming my sweet baby into this world, I feel like I just want it all to be over.

I've always turned to having some wine or a couple beers to turn my mood around but obviously being pregnant that is not an option. Well it is, somehow I'm just finding the strength to resist. I'm just not coping.

I love my boyfriend more than anything. We are perfect together. He is a veteran and doesn't do well with talking about "feelings" so I don't think he understands what I'm feeling, and if he does, he can't communicate that.

I have been laying on the couch for almost 4 hours at a loss. I want to get up but I feel paralyzed. I want to do something but I feel so stuck.

I just need to know how to wake up and pull myself out of this.

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