Did/does anyone just have the blues sometimes? This is my first pregnancy that’s actually stuck and I’m so excited but sometimes I just get massive swings of sadness or blue and I just wanna bawl and sometimes I just wanna scream.

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I’ve just been feeling blue or sad the last few days.. on top of being anxious and I’m not used to so many feelings 😂 I don’t let emotions or how I feel out. Just not me and it’s how I was raised. But this pregnancy has me struggling big time and I can’t talk to really anyone about it because I can’t talk to either of our family’s and I don’t have friends so.. please tell me I’m not the only one. I feel so alone in this right now. Is it something I should mention to my OB next week??

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Going through the same. I feel absolutely worthless. I don’t have friends either, and can’t talk to family because well, my mom just doesn’t give good advice so I feel like I tell all my business for no reason, and my little sister always agrees with my feelings etc, but she’s harsh on advice. I don’t have anyone to just vent to at times like this, so everything just builds up and I personally know that letting shit build up doesn’t have a good outcome. My boyfriend and I just got into a little argument but of course he thinks he’s right, I just don’t wanna talk about it anymore because I get upset easily and he doesn’t seem to understand why. So instead of us continuing the conversation & arguing, because I can’t handle being upset like that, plus arguing just isn’t my thing, I’m sitting at home cleaning house etc and crying my eyes out because he said some shit that hurt my feelings, all I can say is “just finish working and let me know when you get off” and by then it won’t be brought up again, like it never happened but in my head I’m still upset about things he said & it makes it difficult to let it go.

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I’ve definitely had my moments as well. I had just started a new job when I got pregnant and these hormones are making me crazy. I’m so irritable, and my short fuse is even shorter now. I snap without meaning to. I’m not that big yet but I can feel the toll pregnancy is taking on my body. It hurts being on my feet all day, with only a 30 minute break and I have to sit down more than that because if I don’t it hurts so bad. I feel like this pregnancy has completely destroyed my work ethic. I am a hard worker and I like to work, but I feel like since I got pregnant very early on at this job that they don’t really think that. I don’t feel like myself at all.

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I’m 18+5 and I’ve been critically depressed for the better part of 3 months. I have suffered from depression before and actually just got off my antidepressants for the first time in 15 years about 2 years ago. But it has really hit me hard again and it’s making it difficult to enjoy this pregnancy at all. To make matters worse, my gender reveal on Mother’s Day broke my heart because the last thing in the world I’ve ever wanted was to be a boy mom, and it turns out we are having a boy. I’m already having a hard enough time feeling connected to this pregnancy because of the depression, and that gut punch just made it worse. It’s getting to the point where I am making decisions that are not good for me and baby. I’ll go several days without taking my prenatal vitamin, even when I think of it I don’t immediately go and take it. I just put it off until later and end up not taking it at all. That wouldn’t be so awful if I were eating nutrient rich foods, but I’m sick as a dog so I’m barely taking in 700 cal/day. I need those vitamins. I’m also a gastric bypass patient so I have very little nutrient absorption from food, making the vitamins even more critical for my health and the health of my baby. But I just don’t care enough to do it. It’s awful. I hate myself for it but I can’t seem to shake it off. I reached out to my therapist and have started talking to her once a month, the next step will be a pregnancy-safe SSRI if I can’t get out of the funk. 
You are not alone, and there’s nothing wrong with you. But I do urge you to reach out to your doctor if you are feeling overwhelmed. Yes hormones do play a role and can give us mood swings but antepartum depression is absolutely real and absolutely needs to be addressed￼ if that’s what’s you’re dealing with. Please call!

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Definitely talk to your doctor about it

Did/does anyone just have the blues sometimes? This is my first pregnancy that’s actually stuck and I’m so excited but sometimes I just get massive swings of sadness or blue and I just wanna bawl and sometimes I just wanna scream.

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