Sorry, this is just going to be a bit of a moan. I am 6 weeks pregnant and completely miserable, I’m exhausted, I constantly feel either sick or hungry (or sick with hunger), I’m in a foul mood all the time, my anxiety is through the roof and I just feel like crying! At the moment I can’t even imagine getting through the day, let alone the first trimester (and the end of the pregnancy just seems forever away). I self-referred to the NHS talking therapies near me, but all they could offer me was an initial face to face meeting in a couple of weeks (when I’ll be 8 weeks), and then fortnightly half an hour phone calls. Since one of my issues is pretty severe emetophobia (which I did explain to them) I don’t see how this will help as CBT can take a while to help and by the time I get to 12 weeks I’ll only have had 3 appointments. I just feel completely alone and trapped and I just want to curl up in bed for the next month.
One thing I’ve considered is pushing to work from home, as a reasonable adjustment for my anxiety (I’ve done this at times in previous jobs I’ve had, when my anxiety has been bad). I mentioned working from home to my manager and she completely shot it down and said it wasn’t possible for my role, which is nonsense as all my work is computer based and many many other people in my team work from home either regularly or ad hoc. I’m just not sure I have the nerve to actually fight for it, and point out that my anxiety is covered by the equality act and that to say no they have to have a really strong reason.
Anyone else struggle with anxiety in pregnancy, and have any suggestions??