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PP Depression. I have all the symptoms. Will it go away on its own?

I have a history of anxiety and depression so I’m more than aware of what to look out for but PP depression feels different to how I’ve felt with my regular depression. Not sure whether to wait it out or go to the doctors.. I have medication at the ready if I feel I need to go back to anti depressants but I would really rather not. Is there anything, other than medication, which can help this? I spend most days inside and only leave th house to do a food shop. I also don’t have many friends. I live on a busy main road and feel too anxious to even cross the road to go for a walk at the moment.

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Please please please speak to your gp rather than waiting it out! Sending you lots of love, post partum is so hard so look after yourself as priority, happy mummy = a happy baby 🤍

Definitely do not wait it out. Can I ask why you’re hesitant to go on drugs? I have gone back on an old medication and it’s helped loads

There are many reasons. I came off them over a year ago to try lose weight and gain back some control of my emotions by trying to face my problems head on - which did work until now. When I gained weight before it just made me more depressed and I hate how I emotionally numb it made me. Of course it was nice to not feel sad or angry or irritated but every emotion was completely flattened for me like I just didn’t care. It may be different this time though if I decided to go back on them and it may be different on a different med, but I don’t really want that battle of coming off them again or the same issues as before repeating them.

Definitely worth trying a different med. PPD can just spiral and it may make you feel better just trying to counteract that even if it doesn’t stick?

Yeah I think I’ll talk to my GP about it and see what they suggest. I don’t want to feel this way but I might just have to go back to meds

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