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[callmecandi]

So Ben and I separated for reasons i respectfully dont want to post. I got some anti depressants from the doctor and my psychologist diagnosed me with post natal depression today. I have had it from when i had mitchell over 3 years ago. How can you not know you have something like that? Well i am now going to concentrate on my kids and getting

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[x_morningstar_x]

You know my view on anti-depressants and coming from someone who has been on them multiple times in the past 10 years of my life.. Please please please be careful. Yes they will help you right now with your marriage falling apart etc. but in the long run do you really want to be reliant on them?
I know the idea of not feeling much at all at the moment is a pretty good thought but thats no way to actually live your life. If you rely on them to get you through this you are going to feel just as bad when you get off them. Why don't you try counselling? I got through PND by myself. It was freaking hard and I was dealing with an ex who had already moved on to a new girl who was by far, the worst type of thing he could have chosen but I still made it through and I didn't have much support around me.
Don't just take the easy route with this, I'm begging you. If I was in QLD I would be the one helping you with this but you have your whole family and all your friends around you, and they should be supporting you. With their help Candice you can deal with this without the help of medication.
Thats all I have to say, I'm sure you will still take the meds because it's what the doc prescribed, but you also have to realise that alot of doctors are way too willing to hand out drugs. They should help you try every other possible way of dealing with it before putting you on meds and by the sounds of things your doctor hasn't done that...

[callmecandi]

i have tried to feel better for years. There was a point when things got bad and i tried so hard to get my life on track but i just didnt have the motivation. I felt tired all the time and It wasnt working. My psych said that with the medication it will help get my mind better and the best time to have sessions is when your mind is better. I have weekly sessions booked and i can get help and get off the drugs. He said if your mind isnt right when having sessions they dont work as well. I have a friend who said she was getting sessions while on the drugs and she came off the drugs fine. I just want my head right. After i told some of my friends and family they said 'I thought thats what you might of had from what you were saying to me.' Im thinking why didnt anyone say anything earlier.