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Post by missness90 on Feb 26, 2014 18:05:34 GMT
Hello all
I'm new to this site and have been suffering with pni for a while. The main thing killing me are the dreaded thoughts they really do bring me down and leave me feeling like an evil person. I'm on antidepressants at the moment and they have worked slightly but what scares me the most is always feeling this way. And what if I always have these thoughts. I've been looking at hypnotherapy to try and help me maybe over come or forgot them altogether that would be my true wish!! Just wondering has anybody looked in to this?? Or thought about it??
Ness xx
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Post by monica on Feb 26, 2014 21:24:47 GMT
Hi
I think I replied to ur first post elsewhere on the board. I haven't tried hypno therapy so sorry can't say.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is very good for combatting these types of thoughts. It teaches you to rethink ur thought patterns as after sometime of suffering with them they become routine . Pls don't despair you will recover from them.
Which meds are you on? It can take a while for them to kick in even a couple of months . If u don't feel your mood is lifting maybe see ur dr as sometime alternative meds might be better and more effective.
Monica
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Post by missness90 on Feb 28, 2014 15:33:12 GMT
Hello
And thanks for the reply I'm on fluoxetine have been for 3 weeks they have helped abit help me see things more clearly. I've been referred for counciling and had like a assessment on things I explained about the thoughts but I felt she thought it was more an OCD kinda thing rather then the depression and now I'm confused as I know that is part of the signs of pnd. I'm just worried now that in not going to get the correct treatment I need. I'm not sure what to do now really.
Thanks
Ness
Xxx
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Post by leanne1990 on Feb 28, 2014 21:50:13 GMT
Hiya Ness
I hate the horrid thoughts too - they are easing off for me now, ive been on citalopram for 7 weeks. /i declined my counseling - the last thing I want to do is talk about it.
I hope it works for you.
Bad thoughts are a sign of PND so unsure why they are saying ocd - have you had different behavior of a repetitive nature? x
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Post by missness90 on Mar 1, 2014 21:31:04 GMT
Hello I'm glad things are starting to look up for you.
I do certain things like check my doors locked, straighteners off but then doesn't everybody??
All I know is the dreaded thoughts are doing my nut in I know there upsetting me because there unwanted and because there upsetting me then I keep going back to them, if they didn't bother me I wouldn't think about them. I'm seriously thinking about hypnotherapy I've been researching it online a lot and in the states they use it to treat women with pnd. I think if I can take the power from the thoughts then they won't bother me allowing me hopefully to move on. All I know is since I've had these thoughts I feel distant from my daughter due to guilt and shame probably and I don't want to feel this.
Xx
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Post by monica on Mar 2, 2014 9:32:01 GMT
Hi
Try not to worry too much about the label they put on your illness. Maybe the person called it OCD as these type of thoughts are obsessive in their nature. They pop into your head you think about them increasing your anxiety so they come into your mind more often thereby increasing your anxiety and so on. With pni which is more commonly known as post natal depression , the range of symptoms you can suffer from is huge - obsessive thoughts, anxiety, depression, physical symptoms to name a few. The illness isn't solely about feeling low which can be extremely debilitating in itself.
Why don't you call a few hypno therapists (I think there is register of qualified ones) describe your symptoms and see what they say and what experience they have of treating these types of symptoms? Do let us knowx
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Post by monica on Apr 15, 2014 20:51:31 GMT
Just wondering how ur doing?x
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Post by Weeble on May 9, 2014 20:10:41 GMT
Sounds like you are having a tough time are things any easier?
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Post by kmum on May 16, 2014 21:33:41 GMT
Def sounds like CBT is more appropriate as it's exactly the type of thing that helps challenge the thought processes and understand the mind. You need to learn this so you can self heal. I would imagine hypnotherapy is the other way round but then I could be wrong.
I did just have Rewind Therapy at the hospital last week. It was offered by a midwife counsellor for people who have traumatic births. Was a sort of hypnotherapy but to be honest I don't think it's done anything for me.
Whereas CBT (along with this site) was my lifeline!!
Ask your GP and read through all the girls posts and diaries.
Ps. Can take longer for meds to properly take affect
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