Severe anxiety with newborn

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My dd is 12 days old today. I've got an 8 and 6 year old from previous marriage. I'm so anxious all the time. It started 4 days after birth. It's mainly on my lack of ability to cope. It spirals from I'm so tired I cant sustain this..I wont be able to look after them all...I can't do this....when the anxiety comes it's so debilitating. Its several times a day and the mornings are the worst. I wake up anxious about being able to cope with the day ahead being so tired. The thing is shes so far been quite a good baby...but rather than help it makes me anxious that I feel like this when shes good how will I cope if she regressed...gets colic...increases her demands. I know it sounds crazy. I'm dreading partner going bk to work Thursday. I was so hoping it was just baby blues and would settle but I cant believe that this is normal...and I can't see how i can endure feeling like this for much longer...I'm literally wishing her life away because i just want to feel normal again. Sorry for the long post.

Did you have your thyroid checked? Had this exact thing with my first, turned out to be post partum thyroiditis.

Have you told your midwife/health visitor/ GP?

I went to the gp and they've given me fluoxetine which I started on weds... but i feel no better really. Had an ok day yesterday but this morning i feel awful again.
How would i go about getting them to test my thyroid?

Nov191919 did the diagnosis help treat it? How long did you feel this way? Sorry to ask just looking for light at the end of feeling like this. X

Hi, it actually just gave me an answer about why I was feeling that way and the condition is usually temporary. It's just a blood test for tsh levels

I’d be worried if you were on here saying. I started on Floxitine on Wed and They’re working already. If they started working straight away it would be mind over matter or if you prefer the placebo effect.

It could be linked to the baby blues. Mine definitely lasted a bit longer than expected. It’s was a good 2 weeks. after that the random crying stopped but the anxiety continued. My baby is now 6 weeks old and the anxiety has started to settle a bit over the last week.

They gave you Fluoxetine when you've only just had a baby? Honestly, it bugs me that all these people can do is write a prescription. Fluoxetine takes a few weeks to start working anyway and sometimes doesn't work, can make things worse.

If your thyroid function is normal (do ask your GP to have it checked, it only entails a blood test), what you need is practical help if only for a while each day.

It will pass but it's horrible to live through right now.

Thank you all. When the anxiety descends its awful...like theres no where out...but it's good to know it will lift eventually.