Any tips on overcoming severe anxiety after baby ?
My girl is now 14 months old. We left her father 6 months ago as it became physically abusive. Overall, we have been doing really well since. We are seeing the people we love and doing lots of lovely things. However, I struggle to eat/ drink enough and have such intense Mum anxiety. It's making the nice moments so difficult. My brain constantly tells me that I'm doing it wrong. Too much, too little, too this, too that. It's been growing in intensity and can sometimes be really overwhelming. Yet, I know that overall, I am actually doing a great job considering everything I've been through. Any advice on relaxing into parenthood? Thanks for reading❤️
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For me, it is anxiety and medicine and talking it through with someone who actually understands what anxiety feels like.
I don't have any advice, just that I had horrible PPA with my first and felt like I'd never get better. But I did. I don't really know when it happened, but it was like one day I just realized how much more normal I felt. You are doing a great job, don't forget that. And you will get through this...it does get better!
If you're in the states, do you have insurance? Therapy and getting back into deep breathing exercises and lifting helped me a ton with PPA.
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Maybe reflect on the times you thought that you were doing something wrong in the past, and then think, did anything bad happen? Was it actually wrong? Did things go well? Usually when we think about things we thought were bad we realise they weren’t really as bad as we thought. I hope this makes sense? X