Depression

[mummatoonexxo]

I have depression I've accepted that now and I'm on medication yet I still feel in a hole I know it takes some time for everything to start working but I'm struggling to regulate my emotions one minute I'm numb and absent to everything around me, the next I'm crying or angry, I can't work myself out anymore, I try to wake up positive but somewhere in the day it just gets exhausting pretending and I'm right down low again. My partner doesn't really understand he just keeps asking what he's done wrong and for me to snap out of it. Usually I'm strong and I've never felt this way in my first pregnancy but this pregnancy has utterly destroyed my mental health. My motivation is at a zero constantly im always tired and I find it so hard to do the most simple of things. Im trying so so hard but this is so difficult ☹️

It's good that you have started some medication and you're right you just have to give it some time (was six weeks for me) to start working. We can't always be positive and bright about everything, perhaps ask your partner to not offer his advice right now as it doesn't seem to be that helpful . I also had terrible depression in pregnancy my hormones were all over the place but it passed very soon after I gave birth. So just try and take it easy and do things which are comforting and make you feel more relaxed if you can. All the best

I’m going through it too and I know it doesn’t help that much to hear but there are many of us out there who understand your pain

my OH tells me to be strong be positive just go out and do things and when I telll him it doesn’t work like that he sighs at me and thinks I’m having a go. Basically turns it on him so then I feel guilt too! I think cause men have had a life free of hormone battles they can’t grasp how we feel.

it’s like drowning in front of him and being told to just swim and getting annoyed at me for splashing him in the process.

we need to feel like people again not just mums and housemaids.

sending my love x