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Anxiety Attacks.

I've started letting everything stress me to the point I start having anxiety attacks. I have no one I feel I can trust with the problems weighing heavily on me so I just ball it up and push it down further. I don't even talk to my child's father. Is anyone else having these problems? Is it normal to feel this way?

Posted by Terica on 02/20/2010 01:57 AM

 

I don't know where you are from, or your situation, but there is a group called "mother to mother" that deals with anxiety/depression that goes along with motherhood.

You are definitally not alone. I went through an anxiety/depression just flat out worried phase until my daughter was 4 months old. Then I inially admitted to feeling so horrible and wrong and found the mother to mother group.

Honestly as soon as I found out I wasn't the only mother in the world that didn't feel like I love my baby enough or right or all that, then I was ok. Honestly, and it's different for everyone, but for me I just needed to know I wasn't so alone.

Check and see online if there is a mother to mother chapter in your area. Tell your friends, you'd be surprised which other mothers in your circle have felt this way. people just don't tell others.

I'm here if you need someone to talk to.

posted by Becki on 02/20/2010 02:22 AM

I have issues with anxiety myself and it really flared up after having a baby. I went on Prozac when she was about 5 months old because I felt so upset all the time and it really helped me. I did see a social worker for a little while but I didn't feel like we "connected". I am a big supporter of medication combined with talk therapy but it's hard to find a good therapist who is available when I am. It's not that you aren't "normal" but life shouldn't have to be so hard all the time and you shouldn't have to feel on the verge of an attack. Talk to your doctor.

 

posted by Suzanne on 02/20/2010 08:34 PM

It almost sounds to me like you have a little bit of post partum depression, not just anxiety attacks.  I didn't do anything about my post partum until my daughter was about a year old and i wish i would have done it sooner.  I didn't want to get the help though.  I hated everything, my self, my ex husband, didn't think i loved my baby at all.  It got really bad until finally my mom drug me to a therapist and made me talk.  The first three or four sessions all i did was cry but she put me on a very low dose anti depressant and i actually still go to her today.  Check into it.  There's no harm in saying "i don't know whats wrong with me"

posted by Amanda on 02/21/2010 06:20 PM

 
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