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[quote=Anonymous]I am really confused here about my emotional well-being. SOme facts:  I gave birth to my son last year and had a really taugh pregnancy during which husband did not support me the way i expected him. the birth ocndition was not perfect either and after that we had no help for our 3 year old while I was caring for the new born. All in all I would say 2013 was a year that I do not wish to repeat again. during this time I started to feel sad and hopeless. I dont know how to articulate it, but I no longer looked forward to go home from work. I felt distant and cold inside. I felt like due to what I went through during pregnancy, I came out a different person than I was before. Things that werent so important to me before, suddenly became critical (e.g. financial well-being, career success) and thing that were so crusial lost their importance in my mind( maintaining relationship with close and extended family members, etc). All of this, has affected my relationship with my spouse as well. I question why I ever married him (I must say our life circumstances has not been an easy one). I feel like I wasted my youth waiting for him to finish grad school, get a job, do something....all the meanwhile I stepped on whatever I wanted for my own life. In my mind, I hold him responsible for wasting my life and think that given what I endured for him he is a very ungreatful person(for one he could have showered me with love and affection during a tough pregnancy, alas! not even a bouquet of roses...)
Now, I am exteremly unhappy with everything. Want to go to psychologist, but honestly I am not sure if this is what everyone calls mid-life crisis or a full blown depression. The reason I am not sure, is that deep inside I know the changes that would make me happy, it is just that those changes are not feasible at this time.
Has anyone gone through mid-life crisisi? Do you think this is post-partum, general depression or the crisis?
I appreciate your input.[/quote]

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