Postpartum rage

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How to stop it?

medication isn’t an option

I had this. Mine came on because I had zero support and a useless and selfish husband. Have you spoken to anyone about this? Tried counselling?

There is no counselling
:(

How much sleep are you getting? And how post partum are you?
Who is the rage directed at?
On day three I unleashed on some absolute wanker on the phone from Scottish power then burst out crying, hung up, then redialed and got through to someone who actually helped me...
Have you got chocolate in the house? It will help with your hormones.

It passes by the way. I'm 7 months pp and alot calmer. Just tired. Constantly.

7 months

i was at a self serve coffee machine at a cafe and there was two. I was waiting for my drink to finish and on my phone. literally the last drop she swiped it away from the machine and bellowed something about a drink not being collected. I don’t have anxiety over germs but it’s a pretty nasty cafe and the cups are a bit gross anyway so to have someone else touch it was gross. Said she was rude whilst I walked away (she decided to mouth of at me).

people that are helping me as it seems to take twenty times as long as I need to micro manage them…

these things would not bother me before

Just been a bit bad recently due to lack of sleep as baby is changing with food and developmental

Yeah your tolerance for bullshit will be at zero. Deep breaths. It's a difficult stage but it gets better x

Do you have support around you? Apart from your partner, a parent, sibling, friend?

www.cope.org.au/new-parents/first-weeks/postpartum-rage/

I'm five years on and still feel intense rage but like I said, mine was related to a useless stbxh who left it all for me to carry/do.

I didn't have the energy at the time but could you redirect the rage elsewhere- gym, running or another physical sport?

www.cope.org.au/new-parents/first-weeks/postpartum-rage/

Honestly, it's okay to feel rage at really rude, selfish people when you are sleep deprived and devoting all your energy to caring for baby.

I'm not undermining your feelings, just saying that it's not uncommon to feel that way postpartum. I have a 5 year old now, but looking back and talking with other mums, retrospectively lots had a shit time but couldn't talk about it at the time as there is so much pressure/ shaming of new mums for not enjoying maternity leave