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Postpartum Depression
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Anger??
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Is anger a part of PPD? I dont really suffer from depression as much as anxiety and i decided at my 6 week check up i would ask my ob for meds and i started zoloft whihc has help with the anxiety but now lately i am ANGRY allllllll of the time. I kick the poor dogs when they get underfoot.... i had to put DD down and walk away the other night b/c she just wouldnt stop screaming. I yell at my DH all the time... Im not a nice person to be around.
Problem is it happens so quickly?!?!? one second i could be laughing at something and the next i am about to explode. Ive always had a temper but nothing like this in a VERY long time. I feel like its getting worse and worse and clearly the zoloft is not helping. I told DH i think i want to start back up with a therapist but they havent help much in the past w/ my anger i needed a cocktail of drugs to make it go away when it was this bad I really dont want to be on that many drugs again.
Could this all be a part of PPD or PPA? There is also a number of underlying issues DH and i are having... taking care of 1 baby is hard but 2 can really put a marriage in crisis!! Think i should call a therapist? i just dont know when im suposed to find time to go w/ the LOs and no baby sitter?
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Re: Anger??
i definitely think it could be part of it. i had more of the anxiety instead of depression too. I'd talk about a change in medication to see what happens. my therapist helped give me some ideas of things to do/think when i felt anxious thoughts coming on; perhaps someone could give you tips on what to do when you feel the anger coming. do you have a psychiatrist or is your OB giving you the zoloft? if your current health providers aren't helping you enough with the drugs or the anger issues, i'd start looking for a new person.
ETA: definitely start looking for a baby sitter too. you need to make time to take care of yourself. i would go to my appts during work hours while the baby was at day care but if you're not working you don't have that same freedom.
Sure it could be! PPD and PPA show up differently in different people...I have definitely learned that. Do you feel anxious? Sometimes my anxiety comes out as anger.
my poor dogs bear the brunt of my stress too....
Yes, anger was the biggest sign of something wrong for me. I hear you on the two babies part...it took about 6 months to adjust for us. A therapist did wonders for me and ask around for a babysitter. Even a local high school student could do it for an hour.
My PPD symptom was mostly anger. I didn't feel that sad, I wasn't anxious, but I had no patience and would get very angry. I went on Zoloft and it got a lot better, I'm back to my normal self.
It sounds to me like Zoloft isn't the right medication for you, or maybe not the right dose. Can you see a psychiatrist, someone who can prescribe medication and therapy?
Personally, I don't feel like I have time for a therapist. I work full time, and have a 2 year old and an 11 month old. I don't want to give up my time with my kids for therapy, and I can't take time off work for it. So for me, I'm just doing medication. I think therapy would help, and I hope DH and I can do some together someday, just not yet.