Hi, I suffered from very severe ante and postnatal depression with my first child and, five years later, I still feel guilty about it all the time, about having let her down, about its effect on her, whether she has been scarred by it etc. I feel like I have been such a bad mother, don't deserve to be a mother, and that I will be punished by something happening to my child (ie she will have been mentally damaged by my depression and anxiety). I am seeing a therapist and thinking about taking anti-ds but I wanted to post as well to see if anyone else has these feelings or - even better - has had them and managed to get over them.
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