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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here thanks for the replies.

I’m on multiple antidepressants and have been on them for years.

I did share with DH and my therapist and psychiatrist that I was having suicidal thoughts. I didn’t share about the planning part because I worried they’d put me in the hospital.
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Girl, you literally needed to be in the hospital to keep yourself safe at that time. Please tell them next time and give everyone a chance to help you. [/quote]

And there also needs to be some phases between at home and hospitalized. Because I can 100% sympathize with OP during PP I was so afraid of my own thoughts that I didnt want anyone to know because I didnt want to be hospitalized because I didnt want to leave my kids/husband.

MANY people dont express these feelings/thoughts because there is so little MH help outside of hospitalization, which is not really the best environment for most people, especially new moms already feeling guilt and shame.

OP I will also say that getting treated for hypothyroid changed my life. For 20 years I've been dealing with cyclic depression, on psych meds, on stimulants, etc. etc. Got treated for hypothyroid and its gone. I still get monitored and have a plan in place for postpartum but if your meds lose effectiveness often or if you have cyclical depression that does not seem to respond appropriately to medications please get a full panel. I have my original labs from my first psych visit and based on those labs I should have been treated for hypo and/or referred to endo alongside psych treatment. Instead, I got a bipolar unspecified diagnosis and spent years living with the fallout from that. And then it got changed to cyclothymic disorder when the oscillations were too frequent to be bipolar. [/quote]

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