Im 13 weeks pregnant and its been like 1 week im feeling extremely depressed, i dont know what to do and i feel lost i suffer from a bipolar disorder and im not taking medication for it, Im starting to have suicidal idealization, and i dont want to go anywhere i stay home all day i dont take a bath as often as i would love too, and im neglecting my kids and husband im so scare to even talk to anyone, what can i do? its medication safe during pregnancy?

I have quite a story to tell you. Read carefully. My mother and father live with each each other as well as me in the same house. Yet my mother has long-term depression and is on almost every anti psychotic, anti depressant thats on the market. Trust me I am a pharmacy technician, interestingly enough. Basically when she was young she had a miscarriage, was raped, parents left her for her “husband”, and she cant seem to move on from the past. The perfect candidate for a depressant according to the books. Now my mother and father are divorced but they have been living together for past 20 years. Its very complicated I know, sorry. She has been getting bad suicidal tendencies, last night she was about to Overdose on her medications, because she could take “life” anymore. Suicidal thoughts are more recurring than ever before. I thought about signing her to a facility for a vacation from work etc. But I don’t think there is an answer to this except live with it, what do you think? Thanks.

I have been so depressed lately, I don’t know how to handle it. My husband is away in Army training until July and I miss him so much and all I can do is worry about him and the baby, and I feel like being alone all the time, but I don’t want to be at the same time. I feel very overwhelmed by everything and I don’t know what to do, I really don’t want to take any risks with meds while pregnant, because even though I am 21 weeks along I’m so scared of losing this baby because I already had a miscarriage. I just don’t really know what to do with myself, does anyone else around have this same problem and know how to fix it? Or if not then you could post some funny story about your pregnancy, that might cheer me a bit. I have no idea.

I don’t want to take medication, but events in my life have caused me to be extremely stressed. One moment I will be fine, but another moment I will break down emotionally and hurt those I love saying irrational hurtful things. One moment I will be fine, the next I am unable to stop crying. It is starting to effect my eating habits. It has near impossible for me to eat lately. No matter how hungry I get I can’t seem to eat. I’m not nauseas, but I the thought of food disgusts me and makes me want to throw up, no matter how hungry I am. I am not underweight, and I’m sure I will be fine.. But it’s becoming a problem in my life.

Does anyone know if there is a fruit or herb I can take to raise my seratonin levels?

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hi, i am 19 +1 week pregnant for the last month i have been extremely tired, i cry at the littlest thing that upsets me and my mood has all of a sudden got bad which i never suffered with in my first 3 months of my pregancy. i have got constant worries that there is going to be a problem with my baby mainly down syndrome as i havent had any of the scans or tests done for it. my partner has recently been made redundant so we only have 1 income and i earn too much to get help with benefits so we are struggling. i work shift which isnt helping as i’m up at half 4 in the morning which i found hard even before i was pregnant but never struggled as much as i am. i finish wok at 2 and by half past im fast asleep on the sofa for an hour then back in bed for 8 to make sure i get enough sleep to get my through the next day. i’m finding it really hard to concentrate or even move about too much.
work isnt helping as im constantly on my feet which gives me backache and stomach ache, i’m also eating foods that are making my sick as i work within a food factory and my boss isnt really listerning to me when i try and talk to her. but i’m mainly worried about the tiredness as i have to drive and the worrying. i feel like i have so much going on in my head that i just dont know what to do but cry and i even then start to worry that my stress is going to harm my baby which i REALLY dont want.

please help
i very miserable helen

I miss my baby’s father so much!it’s crazy,he’s the only one who can bring me up,and i don’t have a phone quite yet.I’m 14 years old,yes i know its way to young to be having a child but please no bad comments.I live 2 hours away from him and it’s really upsetting me,because when i lived a couple streets away from him we’d see eachother 24/7 and i just moved 2 hours away form him 3 weeks ago.He’s still here for me and wants to be apart of me and his child’s life.It’s just i find myself crying all of the time and when i feel fine,i stop and notice im ignoring everything around me because i keep thinking over and over that im alone.How do i do this.What can help me get out of this depression?

I am a strong person but I am not sure whether my fatigue and tearfulness is due to depression or illness. I have had two miscarriages back to back, other personal problems and work problems and family pressures. I feel fatigued from midday to exhausted at 8pm and weak and want to sleep. Been to the gp who did thyroid and full blood tests for hep c and b and the full works. all came back clear. I have a hormonal imbalance with a cyst on my ovary, but other than that, I have no explanation.

My boyfriend thinks iam being silly, but i found out a was pregnant with my second child last week, i am only 7 weeks pregnant and we’v decided to keep it which is what i want to do. But i feel soo different from last time i was pregnant i was so happy last time.But for some reason now i am extremely irritated by everything and blow my head of at my boyfriend if he says sumthing like ‘did you wash my black t-shirt’ i just go mad and think hes saying iam a bad houswife.I am extremely tiered. yesterday my daughter stayed at her grandparents 4 the day and ijust slept all day, i woke up by a phonecall at 4 0 clock asking if i want my baby back yet. i felt so awfull. I cant be bothered to eat,food just seems boring to me.i dont know why. the tiniest jobs seem massive and i get so upset and cry over the washing up etc.I dont want to talk to anyone.I hate it when people start talking to me and i dont know why cos iam usually very sociable.iam very angry. is this just pregnancy hormones?

I am not a very emotional person but at this moment (11 weeks preggo), I am like in a roller coaster of emotions. Sometimes I feel up and okay….and there r times when I feel so down and just cry.

I am presently still dealing with my heartbreak – breaking up with my baby’s father and him accusing me of deliberately getting myself pregnant.

I am just worried that my depression can affect my baby. Has other women felt this? And can depression heighten the risk of a miscarriage?

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