If I go to the Drs and admit how I'm feeling will my Dc be taken off me?

[brittle]

Thats it really

I know I need to go

I'm scared of the consequences

Have never hurt the DC or given any reason for them to be taken from me but I can't stop worrying that I'll be classed as an unfit mother

Aw brittle

Absolutely not - the doc is there to get you all the support you need.

Please go to the docs and get the help that you need.
The docs are there to help.

Rationally I know that myturn

I'm also scared of admitting to anyone really

I am a coper

Dont do falling apart

In my experience, the more you try to do the not falling apart thing the worse it will get.
Admit you are struggling and get the help you need to give you a chance to enjoy your life again.

I know exactly how you feel - honestly. Been there, done that.

But you have taken the first step of admitting it to yourself (often the hardest step) - then admitting it to others on here. The next step is to deal with it. Coping doesn't have anything to do with it really, depression is an illness just like any other, and needs to be treated.

Getting help was the best thing I ever did - please, please make an appointment with you doc.

Brittle, you sound like me except I want to go to the doctors so that my children don't have to be looked after by me. That is how low I am at the moment.

Do go to the doctor. I am sure he/she will try to do nothing more than support you and try to work some way around your problems.

DG

Thanks crocky

Cant see screen as I'm crying. Again

I'm so fed up of feeling this way.

Feeling wary as I don't really have any sort of relationship with any of the gps at our surgery. Not sure how I would approach it with them

Well the way I approached it was to walk in and burst into tears. Not that i would recommend that but it certainly got the point across!
Please go see them.

If you are anything like me, the second you sit down in the chair it will all come flooding out...

They are trained to spot depression. Will probably know before you even say a word. You'll feel so relieved once you have been.

All is not lost crocky, your last point made me lol, still some sense of humour left in me then!

Will bite the bullet and make appt.

I seem to swing from very high to very low, no middle ground and emotionally I feel all over the place

such sad post - really really hope you go, i see laods of ladies who are depressed and "not coping" i bet you cope so much better than you think you do - i owuld never class someone as an unfit mother just due to their depression, there is lots of help out htere including councelling and medication that could really turn it around for you. I have only once in a 12 year career contacted social services about a mother and htat was because she was mad as a mad thing . please go to a your docotor ( are they sympathetic types ?) if you want info about treatments that maybe offered just post . good luck , you and your children deserve for you to feel better.

Got to go out brittle, but will check in on this thread later on. You'll get loads of great advice here - just talking about it helps because you will realise that you are not alone in this. You aren't the first and you certainly won't be the last.

xx

Getting you to laugh has made my day
Let us know how you get on and there is always lots of support here.

Small people demanding attention so I've got to go too

Thank you lovely MNers

No appts til Monday. Have to phone then and hopefully get to see a Dr half as nice as mummydoc sounds

Good luck, brittle. Well done for recognising that you need to go to the doctors. You are indeed a coper and brave one. Your children are lucky to have a lovely mum who can accept a little help when she needs it.

DG- sorry you are feeling so low. I hope things take a turn for the better soon.

good luck brittle, much better to get support if you can. motherhood can be so isolating - one day can feel like a year - there is much more awareness of maternal depression. they should be really supportive!
All the best and thinking of you.

So glad you have decided to book an appointment. Let us know how it goes

Hi,
hope you feeling better soon. I felt the same a while ago, now I'm the old sane(ish) me most of the time. It's so annoying what your mind puts you through, you just feel so out of control.
xxxxx

i wnet to see my doctor with depression after my first child was born and on the way out ( as i was crying and sobbing) i said " you won;'t take my ds off me will you?"

he said " don't be so ridiculous!"

Good luck Brittle - and well done for making the first step

I did the same - went to my doctor with the fear that they would take DS away and, given what I told them about how I was feeling, I think they may have been justified, but they didn't bat an eyelid. I sat there, cried, explained briefly how awful I felt and was taken very seriously. Things aren't perfect now but having taken that first step, I feel slightly more in control of my destiny. I am on ADs and have counselling organised and, although I know it is a very long road to stop feeling this low, I feel that I am at last on the right track...

Please keep posting - let us know how you are, ok?

brittle - have you been to your doc yet ???