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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a small practice.  I'm ashamed to talk to the receptionist (she obviously knows me).

I'm ashamed to have my manager find out.  But I can't hide therapy from him.  It's not like he won't know I'm missing work.

I know these are excuses.  But they're also keeping me from calling.[/quote]

The receptionist has heard this before. And worse. And she doesn't care.  I promise you, she really, really doesn't. And it is possible to find a therapist who has some hours outside normal 9-5.  They're few and far between, but they do exist.

I know how you feel.  I was petrified to admit I had PPD or post-partum anxiety, really, after my first child was born. I felt like admitting that was admitting that I was a complete and total failure at motherhood.  I mean, I thought I was a complete failure, but I didn't want anyone else to know that I was. So I suffered and I struggled and I alienated my husband for a year and a half. And then we started marriage counseling and she really suggested that I try an anti-depressant and I still refused because I still thought that it meant that I was a failure, that I ought to be able to cope because everyone else does (or at least that's how it felt). And then I got pregnant with my second and I had horrible insomnia and things fell apart. Our marriage counselor and my OB practice (actually midwives, who have the reputation on here as being opposed to EVERYTHING except green vegetables and exercise during pregnancy) ganged up on me and convinced me that I really needed some help. That it didn't mean I was a failure if I did. And Zoloft changed my life.  I swear, it did.  I realize now how bad it was--how anxious and irritable and miserable I had been for so long.

You can make the call. Or, like a PP said, call your regular doctor. If you don't have one, I have nothing but good things to say about everyone I've seen at One Medical Group.

If you can't call for you, then call for your baby.  Like they say on airplanes, put on your own oxygen mask first so you're equipped to help someone else. You can do this.[/quote]

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