Guilty..about self care

I need someone to talk to, as I feel guilty now, but this morning I was feeling really self neglected, I have been trying to do things which can help me get a bit better and be more focused on myself too get better, I have been fighting postpartum depression and anxiety for some time now, I know 4 month isn’t that long for some, but imagine I thought my baby and my husband would be better off without me, and I should just end it all, but then after feeling shit for a while I thought fuck! no one else can care about him like i do, and no one will love my little boy like i do, after talking to my husband, he didn’t understand at first so i started to slowly distance myself from him, and moved out to my parents house with my baby, and only existed as a shell, and had zero interest for anything at all, all this time my husband must have call me over a thousand times in 2-3 weeks, including everyone else as well and hardly talked to my baby in that time too, once I moved back home with my husband as my parents left to go on a vacation for 3 weeks, and when we got back my husband sat me down and spoken to me, and asked me what I wanted or how he can help me, and begged me to fight for our son, and he said for him I was his top priority, and even before the baby, and he just wants me back, I cried a lot and slowly tried to talk to him, I use to avoid it and go to sleep, so slowly made effort to wait, and just waited to eat with him, fast forward to now, I have just gave myself a little self care time while I had the baby to feel a lot like myself again, and now I feel really guilty for doing so, and needed some advice, how do you guys coping and managing to look after yourself and not feel guilty
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Sorry you have had a rough time. The way I look at it is that the more I care for myself the better parent I am. We need to fill our own cups so we can pour into others too. I also think it is positive for our children to see us taking care of ourselves because they copy us and we model to them so it will help them see that self care is vital.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this, about 5 weeks ago I was diagnosed with ppd as well and have been on my medicine for that length of time and can only describe it as seeing in colour for the first time in 4.5 months. I HIGHLY reccomend talking to your GP. They were incredibly empathetic and very helpful and I feel like a different person. Better partner, better mum to our two kids, better self care and taking care of me again in general.

@Kate I have been on the program for about 3 months now, and they things they have been trying out with me is our classes and that, which isn’t always hadn’t been possible, I just kinda had to fight the battle on my own so far and with my husband’s help I’m getting to become more comfortable with being in my own skin again a little bit and our relationship is improving and getting so much better with each other

@Katherine thank you soo much means a lot, I have been trying to get through this rough patch, and hopefully will be able to get out of the dark tunnel soon I hope, I just think about my baby’s smile when he looks at me and the way he lights out and releasing sometimes I just need to leave the things alone and just have a moment to myself when he goes to sleep now and it’s okay to leave household chores for later on or another time

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