Feeling down... where to turn?

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Hi all

This is my first post on here so I'm a bit apprehensive!
I'm 20 weeks pregnancy with my first baby and for the past month or so have been feeling really, really down. The closest feeling I can compare it to is anxiety/feeling worried about something, but I don't have a particular thing that I'm worried about. I have a loving, supportive partner and we are both so excited to become parents. We have no money worries, both have great jobs and fantastic families and friends. I just don't know what's wrong with me.

I don't have a great relationship with my boss (she's a lot older than me and very old fashioned and we just don't see eye to eye) so I think being at work in general is triggering my anxiety and it just gets worse as the days go by. I have spoken to higher people in my company about my boss but nothing seems to change. Since I told her I'm pregnant I feel like things have gotten much worse and I'm stuck for ideas on how to improve things.

I have a midwife appointment in 2 days and plan to tell her how I'm feeling but just wondered if anyone else had been in a similar situation? I'm not anxious about the pregnancy at all, it's everything else in my life that seems to be getting me so down in the dumps

Hi, I hope you are feeling ok and managed to speak with your midwife. I had the same as you although my anxiety was around being constantly worried the baby was ok but things got worse after she was born, I was anxious all the time, I couldn't even leave the house some days, being too scared we would be run over walking down the road, there would be a terrorist attack, I was constantly checking she was breathing and would wake in the night all the time to check she was still breathing. Some days I convinced myself she was unwell and take her to the doctors, it was awful, I cried all the time, I couldn't sleep I would go days without eating. It took until my daughter was a year old to eventually get help. I couldn't cope any longer and thought it would go away on its own but it didnt. I now have weekly private counselling and take anti depressant tablets for post partum anxiety. Id 100% seek help straight away as soon as you feel not right. Talk to people and don't be afraid to ask for help. Good luck