I need advice. I had depression before my son was born just over a year ago, and have had it since I was about 9. I'm now 19. It got much worse after he was born, I think developing into PND. I went to the GP who refused to put me on anti-depressants because I'm breastfeeding (although offered them to me when she thought I wasn't breastfeeding) and I refused counselling as I just can't physically talk about it. I have periods where I'm... not fine, but better than usual then I have a dip where I get much worse, and the cycle repeats. I'm now pregnant again (only about 5 weeks) and I can feel it getting much, much worse. I've been sobbing for nearly 3 hours tonight. I can't sleep, even though I'm exhausted and running on about 2 hours sleep a night. I'm just so, so depressed. When I went to the GP she was very condescending and told me that "anti-depressants aren't magic pills, you know" and sent me away with a piece of paper with about 5 lines of print saying something like "what is depression" or something useless like that.
I need help, I really do. I'm frightened to go back to the GP, but I'm also frightened what will happen if I don't. I have no idea what to do and I'm kicking myself that I didn't consider this before I got pregnant again, which I should have done as we planned this.
Sorry, it's garbled. I'm not thinking well tonight.
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Daleybump · 04/12/2014 01:00
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