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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a hard one. I had experienced mild anxiety that I was briefly treated for prior to my pregnancy. After my son was born I had PPA, immediately sought treatment, and it was resolved with CBT and medication. I decided not to have another and we are all healthy and happy. My sister who had bouts of eating disorders and depression had treatment resistant PPD for a full year after the birth of her first child. She did have another child, but this time she has not been able to recover from PPD (second child is now 3). She is unable to work, and some days she is not able to get out of bed. She hasn’t given up—she continues to see new treatments—but mental health can be hormone sensitive in a way pregnancy can throw off kilter.[/quote]
That is terrible.[/quote]

PP here-yes it is. She has always loved children but is unable to be the mother she wanted to be to her own kids. I do hope she will find relief at some point and my parents and I both spend a lot of time with her kids (including overnights) and give a lot of support, but she is not the same person she was before kids. [/quote]

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