pleased to find you all

[rach]

hello

Finally i seem to have found people to talk with regarding my post natal depression, however i must warn you all my spelling is bad so sorry in advance!
Hi my name is rachel i have a son who is now 18 months old and of course is beautiful ( im not biest)
after having my son i told my health visitor (who is fab)
not to worry as i would not allow my self tgo get post natal depression to be honest im not sure i even belived there was such a thing!
However my hv could obviously spot the signs and i eventually opened up to her with floods of tears and fright during a weaning talk when Ethan my son was 4 months old.
Since then i have had a number of different anti depressants which helped for a short time but unfort
had undisirable side affects with me however my gp who is also great keep persisting with me u till i have found one which is great what a difference, i was also refered to community mental health team of a psychiatric and nurses who came to the house, I guess i have been lucky with the support from the nhs recieved

At this point i would like to advise any one who is where i was all those months ago to hang on in, and
as B.T advised it is good to talk, im by no means saying that anti depresants are a must , but what i would say is don't rule them out because a friend of a friends relatives anties uncles wife said they were bad !!!

after months of suffering and being embarassed of suffering i opened up and told friends and family of the situation, which felt great, however some of the older members of the family asked me "what i had to be depressed about" and to "pull yourself together"

I still have the odd bad day but on the whole things are looking up and peopleare telling me know that its nice to see the old me back !!

i hope this can help anyone suffering or whating to know its ok to feel the way you do.

I'm not trying to be patronising so i am sorry if it comes across that way

great to see such a useful site thanks veritee

;D

[francoise]

hi rach

what a fanastic post

full of positvity and i thankyou from myself for coming on here to talk , im personally very interested in what happens as pni goes along and how we get better
im glad ure recovering ,i hope you join us on the main forum to , it would be so nice to have others that are in your stage to talk to ,anyway welcome rach ,you are so welcome and no not atall patronsing in anyway atall , im really looking forward now to hearing more about you ,

its very exciting for us to have girls that are recovered or recovering on here , it makes us so hopeful , yeah rach please be a part of this forum from now on ,

love francoise x

[Veritee]

Hi Rach
And welcomr to the forum.

Thank you for saying how useful you feel it could be -

and dont' worry about spelling, I can not spell at all and unfortuately their is not spell chck facility on this forum, sometimes if it is a long post and to have bad spelling wooulf make it hard to understand or if it is late at night when my spelling goes altogether, I write it in word and copy it to here,

Anyway, I hope you will start a thread if want to or answer others, as Fran said it is of great value to others on her to hear about others experiences and especially recovery.

Also until you are off themedcation for a while and and feel you ae compltely over it - a bit of support now and then can be welcome.

All teh best

Veritee

[collette]

hiya

my name is collette and i am quite a new member. good to hear you are being so positive about pni.

hope to hear more fromyou or you post a thread
collette
x

[rach]

thank you for taking the time to reply

I have never used he internet before so this is all new to me. Can you believe i'm 27 years old and yes this is the 1st !!
My nephews can do more!

i hope i can help people and anyone can e-mail me.
however im only able to log on at night once the little one is in bed.

[jennie]

hi Rach, welcome to the forum.
I'm Jennie.I'm so glad you've had the support you deserved ...it can be quite a long journey can't it?
I too am a beginner with the computer and my four old is a total wizz on it!
There's a great group of ladies on here and hopefully we can support you in what needs you have too.Already your story is an inspiration and it's good to have somewhere to put

[banana]

hi rachel,

welcome to the forum. Its always nice to hear when someone is doing well. You will no doubt be very useful on here.

Lana x

[time]

Hello and welcome to the site. i tand to be here of an evening when my brood are all in bed and of course when my hubby is at work and so you will probably notice that there can be gaps in my appearences.Oh and i to can't spell a sausage!