will ADs help?

[bouncybabe]

I've also posted on "relationships" - "can't believe this - so upset" and was wondering if anyone thought that AD's would help me and help improve my marriage. h says i never let things go and keep on and on and on and he is generally right. i've find it hard to let things go and they go round and round my head and i often overreact. i took my first AD this morning - will they really help or are me and h just incompatiable

Sorry, I haven't seen your other thread yet, but do you feel you are depressed, or is it more that there are problems within your marriage that need dealing with?

no i don't really feel depressed - i often get anxious about things and then end up being irrational and not letting them go and keep going on and on at h. maybe the AD's would help with the anxiety? and then i wouldn't be irriational and then h wouldn't explode at me? am i deluding myself?

Who suggested you take AD's? Was it your HV?

a few weeks after i had ds, i got hysterical because of something h did and couldn't calm down. i went to docs and told her what had happened and asked if AD's would help and she told me to try them

I guess there is no harm in giving them a go & seeing if they help you. Do you feel your more anxious than you were before the birth of your DS?
You may have a touch of PND. I had this after DS2 & was prescribed citalopram, which helped me through a rough patch.

i wouldn't say i am more anxious now - it pribably just seems worse because we have ds and it would be so nice if we could enjoying having him together

still in a state over whether to take the ADs. i also have problems with my "rules" eg have to "see"the kettle boil for ds feeds or have to do it again, check things alot, rules avout how dh shuld speak to me - sometimes it's the breaking of the rule that upsets me more than the action itself. I wonder how citalopram would help with this? Worried tho that if it did work , when i stpped the ADs it would just go back to how it was before again?

anyone there?

BB, A MW/counsellor who specialises in this field said to me that she believed that post-natal anxiety is just as prevalent as post-natal depression. The PND tag can quite often get in the way of self-diagnosis for PNA (you think, 'well I don't feel depressed, just anxious, so it can't be PND, I don't really qualify for ADs'). She says PNA requires similar treatment.

Have you asked your GP about cognitive behavoural therapy counselling? It might help, too.

Bouncybabe

I suffered with severe anxiety after birth of ds. Eventually tried AD's. They worked for me. I would talk to your GP/HV about how you are feeling.

I stopped taking AD's after about 8 months. I do still get anxious days, but nothing like as bad, and few and far between.

AD's saved my marriage!

This is just my experience, everyone is different so go through all the right channels before you make a decision.

good luck.

McNoodle, thanks for that. have made docs appt. Feel i need something to help improve my marriage too - how did ADs save yours? Did your dh have trouble dealing with your anxiety? can't bear it when mine gets angry with me - i know he tries but sometimes i must push him too afr