I’m 32+4 weeks pregnant and really struggling. I have an anxiety disorder, diagnosed years ago, and when my anxiety was bad I think I also had depression although never formally diagnosed.
I’ve had it pretty well under control for a while but pregnancy is just making everything worse. I am thrilled to be pregnant but I have never been so miserable or felt so low. I feel like crying all the time and just want to curl up in bed for the next 8 weeks.
Is there anything that my midwife can do, it feels like any referral would take as long as I have left in the pregnancy anyway, so I just can’t see a way of not feeling like this.
Also, when people say, speak to your midwife about it, what exactly do they mean - mine is only responsive over text, should I text her saying “hi, think I have prenatal depression, can you refer me please?”