depression or hormones??

[katerebeccaxxx]

i've been struggling since i found out i was pregnant really badly. i've lost motivation in almost everything, i don't know what else to do. i've told my midwife and she advised to speak to my GP which i did. my GP just brushed it off as hormones and gave me a couple weeks off work..

i've gone back today and she said the same thing. i was asking advice and she just said hormones are normal. but i just felt like screaming i'm so overwhelmed. im coming to terms with being a single mum and i just want to cry at the thought of how worse i might feel if no one takes me seriously.

i'm considering paying for therapy/counselling as the nhs counselling service list is so long.

someone give me some hope 🙁

Please ask to see another GP.
And ask midwife about perinatal depression

It is entirely possible that it isn't 'just hormones' and it is bad of your GP to brush it off. Pregnancy is utterly overwhelming too though.

Hi, sounds to me like you have prenatal depression as pp said. Ask for another gp and talk to your midwife. They have special mental health midwives who can help with treatments.
I was fobbed off myself and had to seriously fight to be heard. As soon as I spoke to my midwife she recognised the symptoms and sent out a special midwife for extra support. It wasn't just hormones, I felt very much like you do. Hopeless, unmotivated and disconnected from my baby and everyone else for that matter too.
The midwives helped me so much. By the time I had my dd I felt so much better in myself for the advice and support they had given me throughout.
How many weeks pregnant are you?

And my midwife has been amazing when I had a big wobble at 34 weeks, partly struggling with the shape I currently am, and anxiety over all the things I don't know and can't control about baby's arrival.

My depression has actually been well under control through pregnancy, even though I came off sertraline but I am constantly watching for it. We're monitoring my mood with the questionnaire each appt but I think I'm bouncing back.

However, my point really is, that this should be taken seriously and you should not be fobbed off

Thank you so so much @arbrighton and @AmyB1986 !!

even just to hear someone saying i'm not alone means the world. i will definitely take on the advice, and speak to my midwife. i just couldn't believe how much she fobbed me off i was so frustrated i couldn't even speak!!

i'm nearly 13 weeks so i understand i'm early on and might feel better but it took a lot to speak up and go to her multiple times and ask for help.

thank you so much for your response though, it really means the world to me right now and i don't feel so lonely.

lots of love xxx

Ask for a referral to the perinatal mental health team. It might be hormone related but that doesn't make how you're feeling any less 'real'. I'm the opposite, I've suffered from clinical depression since my early teens, yet during pregnancy I'm usually ok.