Severe anxiety, third pregnancy

I’m currently 29 weeks pregnant and pretty much since I found out I was pregnant I have experienced severe anxiety… I’ve experienced anxiety for a lot of my life and I was taking medication up until I fell pregnant for the third time… I think I naively thought I didn’t need medication anymore so I weaned off it but now that I’ve been off it for months I think it was actually helping… It’s hard to know if the anxiety is this bad because I am pregnant or if it would still be this bad if I wasn’t… I don’t recognise myself and I’m not even excited about this baby coming.. I have an almost 4 year old and a 17 month old as well and I am so exhausted that I feel like I am just surviving each day… like I get up each day just for my kids but I feel numb.. I’m really tempted to go on medication again but I went through so much to come off it… but I don’t think I can continue feeling this way especially while I’m pregnant.. Sorry for the long post… just wondering if anyone else has had experience with anxiety and depression during pregnancy and what they did about it… thank you xx
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I am so sorry you are dealing with this. I just went off a medication after years of being on it. It was brutal going off. But when you are pregnant and exhausted and have Littles, going back on a medicine temporarily would be beneficial. This is something to consider especially if you are going to experience postpartum anxiety. There's no shame.

@Kate thank you so much, Kate. I think deep down inside I know this and I don’t know why I’m fighting it cause how I’m feeling now cannot be good for the baby… xx

Life can be overwhelming enough, then you add children, relationships, pregnancy and it only increases. I can completely understand wanting to get off them but it may just not be the opportune time to do so and that’s completely okay too. If you’re realizing they were helpful I would definitely get back on them. All the fluctuating hormones and just process of being pregnant is so tough and isolating it’s so easy to get sucked into a depression or have anxiety attacks. Don’t feel bad about that

@Natalia thank you so much xx I think getting back on them is the only thing that is going to help me atm.. thank you xx

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