Depression guilt

Please see a doctor. A low dose of Zoloft was transformative and I felt better within a couple of weeks. Don't feel embarrassed. It does get better.

I go to individual therapy, group therapy, and take 2 medications. My littles are 9 mos and I feel like I am just getting a handle on the depression and anxiety most days.

@Kate I'm already on 2 medications that I've been on for years. I got some meds for ppd but they make me so tired I couldn't get up with baby

My child is 2 years old now, I got better very gradually. I still have bouts of it some days but it's mostly gone. I'd say what helped the most was getting a break from the baby so I can do basic self care like washing my hair, drinking a hot drink still hot, going to the toilet alone when I need to, not when they let you etc. Getting other people if you have any help to help out as much as possible and making routines for self care...but it's different for everyone... I still feel isolated and not myself as I've changed a lot but giving myself time to be a human and allowing myself basic human rights helped

@Wendy thank you I am going to try to do this more. I put everyone else's needs above my own

Yes, I'm the same. I felt guilty Everytime I didn't fully attend to my son or cook dinner or keep the house clean. I didn't even spare one minute to brush my own hair. I didn't brush my hair for over six months at one point. I literally ran around all day doing things for everyone starving myself of even basic needs. To be honest I still struggle but routine helps and decided I'm not going to some things helped free up time. Childcare is the key though, without it, I was doing childcare/housework literally over 100 hours a week. It was destroying me

I’ve been struggling with mental health since my teens I first became a mom at 18 and my depression was really bad but I just kept it to myself and kept my therapy sessions very surface level it wasn’t until my 20s my dad had just passed and I knew I couldn’t survive keeping it all in I went through many therapist until I found the right one and even though I was scared to tell him everything that was going on I just went for it and started being brutally honest telling every messed up thought or feeling I had which made it easier to get on the right medication I still have bad days but I feel so much better after talking to my therapist because the right one will be there to help and give you all types of tools to try and manage what you’re going through I really hope you find someone who you can be vulnerable with so you don’t have to suffer in silence