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Maybe struggling with post partum anxiety and loneliness.. Help?

~HynxyLynxy113 Jun 30, 2012

My daughter is a little over five weeks old and I'm so exhausted. I'm pretty sure I have post partum anxiety, and I'm really concerned it's going to turn into post partum depression. My boyfriend and I live together and we've been together for almost 5 years, but to be honest he's fairly distant emotionally, so I don't really get to express my feelings a lot. I literally have one close friend, who lives over 3,000 miles away, but his phone keeps bugging out, so when we do get to talk I just try to keep things positive.

I'm not really looking for sympathy, just someone to talk to who will be patient and understanding. I'm home by myself with my daughter most days and I'm usually so stressed by the end of the day, I end up curled up under a blanket reminding myself to just breathe because I can be easily set off by little things and end up either really angry, or in tears.

I don't really know what else to do. I have found that as long as I'm speaking to someone, whether it's through texting, actually speaking, or over the Internet, I tend to hold myself together better throughout the day. So please, will someone help me stay sane through the day?

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~TheNecco Jul 3, 2012 Student General Artist

Sounds like you need a bigger social life. Make more friends

~HynxyLynxy113 Jul 3, 2012

Not exactly the easiest thing in the world with a child and only really knowing people without kids.

~TheNecco Jul 4, 2012 Student General Artist

I'm sure there are huge mom communities out there. How about any neighbors?

~siantjudas Jul 1, 2012 Digital Artist

talking definitely helps when you feel like this, although not that i know what post partum feels like
in the attempt to keep you occupied, what kind of little things set you off?

~HynxyLynxy113 Jul 1, 2012

As in make me angry or anxious?
A large multitude of things that range from the sound of the workers outside sanding cabinets, to walking into the kitchen and realizing the floor is sticky because my roommate was too lazy to just use a wet paper towel to clean up a spill..

~siantjudas Jul 1, 2012 Digital Artist

i can see how that would
i mean, all that is probably just adding excess stress to you in a time when your threshold for stress is at an all time low

stress is like a glass, you can only pour so much into it before it starts to overflow, and right now your glass is probably at capacity so even small drops make it overflow

~HynxyLynxy113 Jul 1, 2012

Yeah that sounds about right. Unfortunately, I have to do everything I can to keep that from happening so I can get through the day. Some days are better than others but I mostly have to just hide away to keep myself from getting set off. But of course, I then get lonely because I have no one to talk to, or anything to do since my things are packed away. (We're moving.)

~siantjudas Jul 1, 2012 Digital Artist

i can see that
how soon until you move?

~HynxyLynxy113 Jul 2, 2012

Next weekend. It feels like it can't be soon enough. I don't get along with our roommate and he doesn't like the baby.

~siantjudas Jul 2, 2012 Digital Artist

well thats definitely good that you guys are moving
youre moving with your bf yes?

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