Symptoms Of Post Pardom Depression
Q: Been busy with the wee one and holidays and such. DH was home for 24 days
and just went back to work this morning. Miss him, but glad to have him
gone in some ways as well.
A:I did go through this with Hannah and it came on strong when she was about
3-4 months old. I ended up with a prescription of Wellbutrin, took it for
about 4 months or so, and then I started to feel different again. So I
stopped taking it cold turkey (supposed to have physician help wean you) but
I didn't seem to suffer any adverse effects and I got back to my normal
self. I think it's the first year and maybe after that it's not so bad.
Tackle it now and you may recover more quickly.
My heart goes out to you because the depression is hard. Glad to hear
Matthew is great! BTW, what does DH do that he's gone? Mine started
driving truck in Dec for extra money to pay off bills. The most he has been
gone is 3 days. It's kind of nice - except when I'm trying to sleep!
You might be suffering from sleep deprivation. I had a whole laundry list
of symptoms I took to the Doctor thinking there was something terribly wrong
with me about 4 months after my son was born. He looked at the list and
questioned me about different things. Looked me over. Looked over the list
some more asked a few more questions then he stopped, thought and asked,
"How much sleep do you get at night?" I exaggerated and said, "5 to 6
hours" I was getting more like 3 to 4 and was embarrassed to say so. Never
thinking sleep was a problem. He was alarmed that I had gone months on ONLY
5 to 6 hours of sleep and really it was less. He said it explained a lot of
my problems. I had been taking the baby and all the house chores and my
crafting on myself and not getting the sleep I needed. I didn't want my
husband to be sleep deprived, because he had to go to work not really
realizing that I went to work everyday sleep deprived. Yeah my work was at
home, but still work. So, I started asking him for help, let a few things
go around the house and tried to craft less and was able to start getting my
sleep up to the 6-8 range and I was amazed at how much better I was able to
cope with life. I wasn't so emotional, my memory was better (that's the one
that really alarmed me was the inability to remember things like where I
parked the car! I swore up and down once someone had stole my car. Called
my husband to meet me at the mall before he picked me up he cruised the
parking lot and found the car. I had NO memory of parking it where