PND Support Thread

they wont lock u away hun, they will try and help u. i was scared of that too thats y i spent years hiden away keeping everything bottled up coz i hurt myself and went absolutely mental and wanted to die i thought theyd lock me up, but really they will intervene with other steps b4 they consider doing that hun x
 
Honestly hun they wont lock you away... I dont wanna go into details on here but with my eldest i had pnd really bad and the thoughts i had were terrible and i ended up doing something i really shouldnt of.

Due to what happened i beleived that they would lock me up or take my baby away as i was a failure... it didnt happen but you do have to be honest with everyone on how youre feeling, it took me a while to do that and when i broke down my god did i lose it!! I got the help i needed and was fine after a while and now hes a healthy 5 year old.... but the 1st 6/7 months of his life were hell. At 1 stage i couldnt be in the same room as him.

Pnd shows it self in different forms, with my 1st i hated him (i know that sounds awful) i didnt wanna be near him and i didnt want him. There was reasons for this as i had a stillborn the year before who was a girl so when my son was born i wanted a girl. With my 2nd i didnt get it at all and with logan i did get it but it seems to of cleared up alot. With logan tho i just felt useless and thought my oh and gim would be better if i just left. My bond with logan is fine i just question myself as a mum.

Sorry for going on abit but i thought if i explained my experiences with it then would understand that it really is an illness and there is help out there and no one is gonna lock you up :)
 
thankyou :hugs:
I went to the doctors today, i wasn't happy about doing it, my mum forced me. Didnt help we had to wait for an hour to be seen, and i just wanted to go home. But she put me on happy pills, or fluoxetine as they're called now. She's wanting to refer me to a counciller and i have to go back to see her next week. In the mean time she's advised i'm not alone with Jude, so my mums gonna take him. And she doesn't think its just PND, she thinks its depression on a whole cos its been going on since before i was pregnant.

I'm real glad you posted that erin cos that's exactly how i've been feeling. Feelings of resentment towards Jude, i feel like i dont love him, or want him. I've been talking about adoption but my mum reckons its just the depression. I dont know, i feel like he's not mine, like he's not real almost. x
 
thankyou :hugs:
I went to the doctors today, i wasn't happy about doing it, my mum forced me. Didnt help we had to wait for an hour to be seen, and i just wanted to go home. But she put me on happy pills, or fluoxetine as they're called now. She's wanting to refer me to a counciller and i have to go back to see her next week. In the mean time she's advised i'm not alone with Jude, so my mums gonna take him. And she doesn't think its just PND, she thinks its depression on a whole cos its been going on since before i was pregnant.

I'm real glad you posted that erin cos that's exactly how i've been feeling. Feelings of resentment towards Jude, i feel like i dont love him, or want him. I've been talking about adoption but my mum reckons its just the depression. I dont know, i feel like he's not mine, like he's not real almost. x

If you wanna chat hun you can pm me. Ill explain what happened with me through that rather than on here.

With my 1st i was on fluoxetine but i found they made me worse so stopped taking them... if this happens with you go back to the docs and get something else. I also had to sign a contract to say i wasnt going to be alone with my son and my oh had to be the parent. I also considered adoption and alsorts hun and it really is just the depression.. once i overcame it tho my bond with my son was sooooo strong. I think that was because i wanted to make up for the months that i had lost with him.

I had councilling with my 1st and that did help... with this one tho im still waiting for an appt. And im not depressed anymore!!

I hope you start feeling better soon and im sure you will overcome this and look back and realise its made you stronger as i did. x x x
 
still getting back to pming u hun. i was on fluoxitine for many years and i found they were just sugar lollies didnt help me at all. usually they are starter pills for depression, if they don't work for u hun don't b afraid to go bac k, but i really hope they do work and u don't have to relyu on stronger pills to keep u going. i'm now on citalopram and 2 quetiapines a day and am scared they are going to make me a zombie or something even more than i am now. my days have been abit better- the last 2- because of the quetiapine, and i hate to say it coz that's what its come to- relying on these hardcore anti sychotics and anti-depressants to keep me somewhat sane!!! I am terrible with Ella- i am so possesive and protective over her, its like an obsession. i find it hard even to pass her to her dad. i hardly see anyone coz i'm scared of them holdingh her, i get thoughts flashing through my head of pple dropping her, or tripping over with her, my brother walked past her holding his phone and i jumped in the way coz i had images of the ph flying out of his hand and hitting her on the head!! stupid :( i have panic attacks in the car because i am terrified of someone crashing into us with her in the car. I still have nightmares and flashbacks of the horrible birth and the fact that they almost had to break her shoulder to get her out and the fact that I almost died coz i lost half my bodies blood- but at the same time wishing that i had lost more coz then i would've been dead. but then beating myslef up- sometimes literally- because what a selfish thought then Ella wouldn't have a mum. sometimes i wake up and think i can't be bothered being a mum today. But i find i walk around like a zombie attending to her every need, doling all her washing, bottles, etc etc i wont sit down for a 2nd everything needs to be perfectly done, and once thats done i just keep tidying the house, last night i got home at 4pm and i didnt sit down until i went to bed at 11ish, exept for expressing (tis y i am here now- expressing b4 going back to bed). and while i am running around tiring myslef out even more i am trying not to cry but then coz i feel so num i cant cry, and my veins are running hot coz im so anxious. i havent eatenm properly since i had her i have a yoghurt and a soup a day thats all i can have i have no appetite i have lost about 15 kgs. i know pple say u cant love anyone iof u dont love yourself, but its almost as if i live for ella. i dont care about myslef i just care for her. And OH ofcourse but i treat him like shit, he ends up crying coz he cant help me and he doesnt know what to do. I was mental when i was pregnant and he kept sayin g its alright the panic attacks, the sadness, eerything will go away once she is born. its bloody worse! you spend so much time being excited about this happy time but it doesnt always turn out like you plan. I am grieving terribly too. i miss being pregnant- even though i had a rough time at the end with haviong spd and being in lots of pain, but im not thinking about that anymore. i miss the excitement of going into labour, having my beautiful bump, having her wriggling inside. now its all gone. i will never have that excitement of brthing my 1st baby again. ever. the memory of it is terrifying and gives me nightmares. i know people say childbirth is traumatic but what happened to us is incredibly terrifying, even my midwife siad she hasn't had a more traumatic birth.
Right, i have one boob ut waiting for me to pump it, but i got carried away on here. Ella is crying again, she's been fed i just want to sleep. *sigh*, guess she still hungry.
xx
 
Hugs to everyone

I have never had my tablets increased i have stayed on 20mg dunno if perhaps i need them increased or not.

I have forgotton what ME feels like, i want to be the happy carefree woman i used to be.

:hugs:

I know that feelling to well. She's still there hun.

Do you feel any better on the dose you're on?

I have good days and bad days.......some days i feel on top of the world and other days i feel like crap!! Going to give it another week then perhaps go back to the doctor!

How you doing?

I had a good week last week but came crashing down this week, I'm starting to pick up again. I feel a bit abandoned this week my CPN, secure Start and Recovery team are all on holiday.

Apparently you can't be depressed during the school holidays.

I have an appointment with my CPN on Monday, he's trying to reduce my diazepam as he thinks they are now making me worse. He might be right.

How are you doing? How's your gorgeous little boy?
 
Trashit Don't be scared to tell your HV everything then they can get you all the help you need.

Nobody is going to lock you up, believe me I've been screaming hysterical at times because it feels like the depression hurts so much. I have been given support from lots of diffrent places plus medication to help control the hormonal imbalance.

Good luck hun. :hugs:
 
I just wanna thank you all so much. I'm sorry you're going through such a tough time at the minute Andi, i really am, i do just wanna come over and give you a great big hug :hugs:

I have a fear about taking pills. I like to be in control of my own body, of my own mind. That's why i never enjoyed taking drugs or getting drunk, i lost control and didnt like it. Im petrified that by taking these anti-d's im gonna rely on them to be happy and thats not how i wanna get. I feel slightly better in that i've admitted it to people that i'm not coping. Everyone was saying how amazingly well i was doing (young mum, doing it on my own, living alone) but all along i just wasn't. I told a friend earlier as well and he put "ah well, gutted." so then i went completely up the wall. I dont know why i do the things i do. I got Jude's moses basket and threw it right across the room then i ripped his entire wardrobe out, i just threw all the clothes everywhere. Then broke down and got in the bath, and considered drowning for the second time this week. I feel like a total failure. I dont know why i cant love him, but i just cant. I know he's beautiful and i know that i SHOULD feel this undying love for him but its never seemed real, even throughout pregnancy, none of its ever been real. Its as if he's not real, i'm not real, my life isnt. The doctor described it as "a bubble" i guess it is that way, i just wanna pop it though. I want to love him, i dont want to give him up. But he deserves people that can care for him, and im scared one day ill do something i regret. I was saying earlier how i resent him for ruining my body. i just pick at the flab and think you're disgusting and thats all cos you didnt get rid of him. And i know thats not my words, or my thoughts, i just have lost myself. And i also dont eat. I cant eat. I just sit and drink lots, i cant bring myself to eat. At first i thought it was just normal to not have an appetite after giving birth and everyone just lectured me on how i need to eat but now i realise that i cant do it. It physically makes me sick. xx

EDIT-
My family are NOT helping me either. When i told my mum and nanna the sick thoughts i'd been having (wishing i'd miscarried) my nanna stormed out of the room. My mum was like "i cant understand where youre coming from at all, he's a human being, you cant just give up, i wont let you. how will the rest of the family feel if you do something like that?" and then my nanna came back in and said "i wont have you giving up, no great grandchild of mine will be adopted. look at him, just look how beautiful he is. how can you not love that?"

I just feel really bad about everything. and i feel like the people i trusted the most in the world to tell have completely turned their backs on me. Like i told my friend i was put on these "ahh its not that bad, it could have been worse." "ahh gutted" And then i get "stop moaning, get a grip" from my mum! I wish i could get a grip, i really do.
 
you know where i am if you need me :hugs:

little update on me ...

i was right i didn't enjoy emily's birthday :(
i went back to the docs yesterday and he's increased
my dosage to 75mg but im staying on the same pills

really hope we've got it right this time :(
i hate feeling like all my progress was for nothing
i just want to be able to enjoy being a mummy

:hugs: to those that need one xxx​
 
Hugs to everyone

I have never had my tablets increased i have stayed on 20mg dunno if perhaps i need them increased or not.

I have forgotton what ME feels like, i want to be the happy carefree woman i used to be.

:hugs:

I know that feelling to well. She's still there hun.

Do you feel any better on the dose you're on?

I have good days and bad days.......some days i feel on top of the world and other days i feel like crap!! Going to give it another week then perhaps go back to the doctor!

How you doing?

I had a good week last week but came crashing down this week, I'm starting to pick up again. I feel a bit abandoned this week my CPN, secure Start and Recovery team are all on holiday.

Apparently you can't be depressed during the school holidays.

I have an appointment with my CPN on Monday, he's trying to reduce my diazepam as he thinks they are now making me worse. He might be right.

How are you doing? How's your gorgeous little boy?



Good luck for monday, its crap how the system works!!

It never fails to amaze me as to how up and down i can be, havent plucked up the courage to go back to the doctor yet but i know i must!

Dunno about you but i will be glad when the kids go back to school have found myself snapping at my eldest.
My wee boy is doing good hes cutting more teeth which is yet another stress!!!!

Hows Kate? She will be changing every day? Is it just Kate you have?
Can i ask how your OH deals with your depression? Does he understand?
 
you know where i am if you need me :hugs:

little update on me ...

i was right i didn't enjoy emily's birthday :(
i went back to the docs yesterday and he's increased
my dosage to 75mg but im staying on the same pills

really hope we've got it right this time :(
i hate feeling like all my progress was for nothing
i just want to be able to enjoy being a mummy

:hugs: to those that need one xxx​

:hugs: hugs hun hope the increase in tablets help you xx
 
you know where i am if you need me :hugs:

little update on me ...

i was right i didn't enjoy emily's birthday :(
i went back to the docs yesterday and he's increased
my dosage to 75mg but im staying on the same pills

really hope we've got it right this time :(
i hate feeling like all my progress was for nothing
i just want to be able to enjoy being a mummy

:hugs: to those that need one xxx​

what tablets r u on hun?
 
Been told I have PND ... and I dont really know how to feel . I started meds today . I feel awful because I was on meds for depression before and I got better I was so proud .. ugh
 
Been told I have PND ... and I dont really know how to feel . I started meds today . I feel awful because I was on meds for depression before and I got better I was so proud .. ugh

It's ok hun, i was the same. now not only am i back on the antidepressants im on a stronger different kind plus anti-psychotics too. It's ok huni, coz as long as you are getting help and feeling better is the main thing :hugs:
x
 
I just feel .. and im sorry for saying it but i feel like a failure
 
I've just come to the conclusion that my pills are making me emotionless. i feel so cold hearted, OH thinks i hate him, coz he's upset and i'm just standing there looking like i don't give a shit- usually i get upset really easily and cry, but i just stand there calmly looking like i dont care. he's gone to sleep in the spare room now. :( i do care, i just can't cry right now- too numb to cry!
 
Soo glad i found this thread... People who actually understand!
I told my psychiatrist (had her from pre-preg due to depression but shes rubbish, never liked her or felt i could open up to her) some of the things I've been feeling, I barely said anything, just touched on it and she twisted everything I said and basically implied Noah was going to be took off me :wacko:
She said "do you ever feel like you want to harm Noah?" and i said, "yes but I would never do it" (stressed that alot of times lol) and she just kept saying "I don't want to let you go and then you end up doing something to Noah, are you SURE you wouldn't hurt him? Do you think it would be best if i got in touch with the Social Services?". :grr:
I'm not seeing her again. I don't feel like I can tell her anything now, the first time I actually tried to open up she mentioned contacting the Social Services, asked me about 10 times in a row if I felt OK (of course I dont feel bloody OK, wtf??) while I answered yes through gritted teeth and she kept going Are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? ](*,)
She told my HV some of the stuff, my HV is lovely and had a chat with me about it but I just downplayed everything (does anyone else find they do this??? I always kick myself for it afterwards), she asked if I was coping and I said "yeah pretty much, gets a bit stressful sometimes" and laughed when I was thinking "No, i'm not coping, at all, i'm falling apart and I want to top myself". Why don't i ever actually say what i'm feeling??
I have a doctors' appointment on monday so i'm going to ask if i can see someone different. Not that I feel optimistic about anything helping anyway. I've been this way for like 3 years, it seems nothing can help me now. And i can't help feeling i made the biggest mistake of my life... :cry:

Ellie :hugs: I had no idea. I froze reading your posts because honestly you took the words right out of my mouth. It's safe to say i'm going through pretty much exactly the same as you, same thoughts and feelings completely so if you ever want to talk about it (i wouldnt mind a good chat from someone who understands like :flower:) you can always talk to me on here or facebook :thumbup: hope things get better xxxxxxx
 

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