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[quote=Anonymous]I am so happy for the fortunate, wealthy, privileged poster upthread, and also extremely envious. Her experience is rare, not common in our country, and likely not something OP can relate to, either. So I’m not sure it’s helpful, or if her sharing her good fortune is just going to make the rest of us feel like crap, since most of us weren’t massaged daily by a masseuse and cooked and cared for while family members cared for the baby and hired help tended to our households, cleaning laundry, grocery shopping, and meal prep. Yeesh.

OP do you have a formal diagnosis of PPD? Because there are a lot of perinatal mental
health issues, and PPD is just one of them. I would not white knuckle anything. You need an official diagnosis from a perinatal psychiatrist, therapy, and maybe medication, among other interventions. Start by seeing a psychiatrist - GW and Georgetown both have specific groups for Womens mental health.

Maybe if US women got one fraction of the nurturing and care the PP did, and longer and better paid family leave, we wouldn’t have the skyrocketing rates of postpartum mental health issues we have. But our country sucks, and capitalism sucks, so here we are. I’m sorry, OP. [/quote]

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