Not wanting to share PPA with family

yourmom5309

DH is the only person who knows about my PPA.  Before I had DD, MIL and BIL were joking about me being an overly sensitive and admittedly sometimes dramatic.  They said "Thank God PPD is not common, because you are already a sensitive person."  The stupid comment aggravated me at the time, but now it makes me completely insecure.  I don't want to share this information with them because I feel like they will be hovering and judging everything I do.  They know nothing about PPD - they think every diagnosis is for women who want to harm themselves or their baby.  

I know I could explain the disorder to them, but I just don't feel like making myself vulnerable.  Am I being ridiculous?

*speedracer*

nope i don't think you're ridiculous.  the only person in family i've talked about it with is my SIL.  She has anxiety and so I know she understands what it's like to have mental issues that are beyond your control.  Now that i'm not in treatment for it anymore, i feel like i could have a sit down with everyone and explain what its all about so they could be educated rather than ignorant...but at the time i was going through it all i could not have handled that kind of conversation.  it's about whatever makes you most comfortable!

jaime5121

You are not being ridiculous!  DH is the only one who knows about my PPD/PP OCD.  Every time I tried to talk to my Mom about it, she was stressed out about how one of my brothers was always venting to her, so I just quit trying to talk to her about it.  Now it seems kind of silly to try and talk to her about it so many weeks after the fact.  My in-laws are super judgemental of me too, so there is no way I would ever tell them what I was going through.  GL!!!

kittylove

For those exact same reasons we didn't share that I have/had ppd and ppa with Dh's parents. They wouldn't understand it at all and I am not sure they would have understood if I had explained it.

exhausted_bride

No, not at all! My husband and a few close friends are the only ones who know about my PPA. My IL's would definitely judge me like crazy. I'm also really sensitive to begin with.