post natal depresion

[tsarvo]

I've got a baby girl of 8 months, at 3 months i started with panick attacks, hot sweats and lots of tears. I went to the doctors and thay were great, I'm on tablets and had cut them down, everything was going great, Untill this weekend. i know a few things were abit depressing at the moment and i had a migrain on sat by that night it had all started again, panicking, sweating and crying. Dose any one know what i,m talking about or should i have my self comited?

oh tsarvo, please don't feel bad about this, lots of us have been there. 8 month old babies do take it out of you. Rhubarb, who is someone who posts here, has a good website with lots of helpful info about depression, I'll go and get the address and post it for you in a minute. Lots of sympathy though.

I had this with DS1, who's now 3. Don't have yourself committed! It's a horrible feeling, very physical and panicky, as you describe. I used to feel as you would if you had just crashed into a pedestrian, got out of your car and run to see if they were alive or dead, CONSTANTLY. Lofepramine sorted me out, with no side effects, but I was very lucky. If I were you, I'd go back to your GP or health visitor to nip this in the bud, as recurrence is awful. It may be that they can recommend some calming coping methods if you don't want to take medication again. Hope you feel better soon.

Also see this thread on mumsnet which is about pnd.

Rhubarb's site is here

I take Lofepramine, the first thing that seems to have worked after running the gamut of SSRI anti-depressants which are more toxic than they are worth IMO. Wishing you well tsarvo.

So there might be hope for me yet, i feel better after seeing all your replys. I', going to look at your other web sights now. thank you all.

tsarvo.. thinking of you ...

PND takes time to go away, I used to have good days and bad days that turned into good weeks with the odd bad day and then good months with a few bad days here and there. Every time I had a bad day I worried that I was going back, but I wasn't ... the bad days got less and less until eventually they never came back. Hang in there ... perhaps you weren't quite ready to cut down on your tablets just yet?

Talking helps. (Thank goodness for Mumsnet!) Perhaps your GP can refer you for some sort of counselling? It helped me enormously. I found that with PND I couldn't think straight about anything and would bog myself down in a vicious circle of negative thought. Talking to a good ounsellor gives you a safety net, and can help you find the positive in your life.

It does pass, not at once - there are ups and downs, but it DOES get BETTER and BETTER.