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Advice please!! Pnd and relationship

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Rb36 · 19/05/2018 10:38

Hi im currently suffering with postnatal depression and anxiety and taking AD at the moment which started to helo then i felt better n tried to wean myself off and gone down again! and although i love my baby so much i dont feel like im ever gonna stop feeling like this and im never gonna be able to be the mom i want to be to her i know i love her so much and shes so good but some days i just feel no emotion at all my partner gets easily frustrated with me but im also holding onto some guilt from the past which makes me think maybe i deserve to feel like this me and my partner went through a rough patch when we had been together about 3 years he was always out and left me alone alot was always calling me names and ruining our home so i had enough and we pretty much split up but were still living together he was going to move out and i slept with someone else and then my partner changed and wanted another chance and it went back to how we were when we met i felt like he really loved me and i realised i never wanted to be with anyone else but i never told him abiut the other guy and 2years on we have a beautiful 6 month old and i feel like i dont deserve either of them because of what i did i cant tell him as it would ruin everythig and he would be heartbroke we have both changed so much since then at 21 and i havent thought about it at all until suffering with postnatal depression and anxiety, im so desperate i feel so lost in myself please give me some advice on how to handle these feelings i feel like such a terrible person

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MayFayner · 19/05/2018 10:46

You don't sound ready to come off the ADs, just go back to your GP and get back on them. These things take a while, there's no rush.

Your relationship with your partner might have to go into "maintenance mode" for a while, while you get better and concentrate on your baby.

Once you are stronger you can work on your relationship, if that's what you both want. You will need to decide whether someone who "calls you names" and "destroys your home" is going to be right for you long term.

Good luck Flowers

Rb36 · 19/05/2018 11:00

Thankyou for your response i am back on them again and are gonna go for counselling since we went through the rough patch my parter has been perfect which is why i now feel guilty for what i did when i felt like it was over and feel like i dont deserve either of them, thankyou Flowers

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