Help with depression during pregnancy?
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at
7:24 am
I’ve always struggled with depression and anxiety. So far, I’ve been fine, but this week, I’ve just felt useless and overwhelmed. Could this be hormones? I got off Celexa at the beginning of my pregnancy and have been fine. I know some doctors feel medications are safe, but I’d prefer to manage this naturally if I can.
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I know how you feel I went through a really bad episode of depression and anxiety a couple of years ago where I was just a completely different person. I have since had briefer episodes of depression and it took me a long time to manage the panic type feelings… so when i found out i was pregnant (9 months ago) I worried whether the hormones would bring out my depression and anxiety. I am now 39 weeks and 4 days and must say I think I have been lucky regarding my mood during pregnancy. The hormones did not trigger my depression, but I have definately had weeks where I have felt like you do, so it very well could be your hormones. My hormones have made me feel very weepy at times, and ive also had weeks of feeling anxious and worried (about things not being ready for the baby etc) and I have had nights with palpitations where I have not been able to sleep just over thinking anything to do with babies! But my point is that these feelings have always been different to what I felt when i had depression, so although they are very similar I am able to recognise that they are hormone related… and I have been very up and down (happy one week, crying the next week) whereas when i had depression i was constantly low for a very long time. I dont know if this is what you are feeling but if you’ve only been feeling it for a week, and were fine before I would say there’s a good chance its just your hormones. I presumed that because i was a naturally negative, depressed type person (ha) that i would be terrible when i was pregnant but i dont think it works like that as I would say I have felt pretty normal (apart from the odd week here and there) which is to be expected with all these massive changes we are undergoing!!! I would try and think positive (i know easier said than done) and accept the feelings as part of your pregnancy and hormonal changes… (i bet it doesnt last long and you’ll soon be feeling fine again!) i think feeling useless and overwhelmed is pretty common in pregnancy, because we are naturally worrying about what it will be like when the baby is born and whether we will do a good job or not! good luck, hope you feel better soon x