If you've had PND...

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I had my baby last summer and I still don't feel like 'me' I'm always tired, I feel on edge a lot and I think this has started to manifest into fast heart rate, instrusive thoughts (I'm going to die and leave my baby with no one) and just generally feeling out of it. I get these weird anxious moments where I go dizzy/panic etc.

I can only link beginning to feel this way to when I had my little girl, she had a traumatic birth (rushed to neonatal for 2 weeks) and really struggling adapting to my new life.

It's not enough of a feeling for it to stop me from day to day activities but I don't recognise who I am anymore. Is this normal?

Anyone? X

I’ve had PND
Id say that the intrusive thoughts you gave are not normal and I’d encourage you to go and see the GP.
id also say that my experience is that my PND wasn’t picked up. I thought it was me not being good enough and not coping well enough. I realised what was going on when dc was about 10~12 months and only because i started to feel better then!

I would really start there.

The other thing I’d look at is the pill if you e started taking it again. I found that after pg, the OCP I’d never had any issues with made me seriously depressed (I thought everyone around me was going to die). So it might be worth checking that too.

Thank you for replying :) I'm having another anxious moment again now we're my heart is banging, brain feels like it's burning and just anxious in general. The baby has been hard work today and I definitely don't feel like I cope very well.

I feel like something bad is going to happen.

Did it go away on its own or did you get some medication for it?

No I took some AD but not for very long - because I was already coming out of it.
I really wish I had started much much earlier on tbh.

See the GP. I took antidepressants it was the best thing for me and my child. Looking back now I was far more ill than I realised at the time.