How I got out of it... (PP Anxiety)

tuicatmama · June 2010

After having a rough start with my son three months ago, (he had a very serious medical problem, we ended up being medivaced to a NICU for 9 days, he has a tricky road ahead of him, breast milk plummeted, etc, etc.) I fell into a pretty deep state of anxiety. I came to this board a few times, and went to see my doc, who gave me two weeks (this was when LO was about 7 weeks old), before thinking about meds...I wasn't leaving the house, and was panicking every second of every day....UNTIL I stopped reading parenting books. I was reading at every feeding (at least 8x a day, often more). I was reading about brain development, parenting, breastfeeding, how to make more milk, stages of development, sleep, etc. You name it, I was reading it, and I was FREAKING out the whole time. I finally stopped reading the books. Cold turkey. I stopped comparing every sentence to how my son was doing. And I really feel that it helped me.

Obviously, I wasn't in as serious of a situation of many of the posters on this board, but I wanted to post this, in the off chance that it may help someone else.

hollerjeepgirl · June 2011

I need to stop reading message boards or trying to get advice. I'm going through a situation where my son has a circumcision scheduled in August and I want to cancel it. I think about it constantly and cry everytime I think about it because I have images of him dying, of me in the waiting room hearing the news of him dying. He was laughing with DH today and I couldn't stop crying because all I could think about was that we get to enjoy him smiling until his surgery because he's just going to die from it. I need to talk to a counselor, going to set up an appointment this week. Then going to do a pre-op appointment and probably cancel the procedure since it's not worth any of this

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