Anxiety

I’ve had diagnosed general anxiety for a while and am on 50mg sertraline per day (went down from 100mg in November). I think I also have PPA or just heightened anxiety from being a new mum. I’m unsure about going back to the docs because surely all they’ll do is either up my meds or offer a stress class which didn’t help last time. Has anyone gone through the doctors and gotten support for PPA in a helpful way? Any stories would help.

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I'm on 100mg and I have absolutely noticed that my symptoms have been heightened pp. I have recently been having CBT through the wellbeing service and while it's not for everyone, it's really helped me and my anxiety. Might be worth having a look at it and see if it's something that might help you

Maybe look into something more therapy based? Talking therapies, DBT is quite good for anxiety. Depending on severity could get support off peri natal Communtiy mental health team. But your gp would have to refer and they would have to accept cx

I'm waiting on an assessment from peri natal mental health, I already had anxiety it's definitely got worse since I had baby. The health visitor said talking therapies might help, and I'll probably be put back on meds (which I was on previously)

@Liz who did you initially contact, your gp?

No my health visitor came out (baby is 3 weeks old so still having visits regularly) and did their own assessment and I scored very high on their anxiety thing so they referred me to Peri natal themself x

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