Mommy Has Anxiety
Mommy can’t play right now, honey, she has anxiety. I know you want me to help with your puzzle, but my mind is all fuzzy and distracted and I…
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postpartum anxiety
Taking Medication For Depression and Anxiety is Not the Easy Way Out
Medication for a mood disorder is “taking the easy way out”. Those are actual words I have heard in reference to people taking medication to help…
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Postpartum Anxiety Could Have Been My Undoing, But God Made it My Redoing
Isn’t it funny that after you kill a spider you instinctively look for another one? Suddenly, you are aware of the eight-legged danger that might…
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Dear Husband, Thank You For Loving Me Through the Storm of Anxiety
The note stuck out from a crack in my steering wheel, folded just so and placed right where you knew I would find it. I opened it gently, and my eyes…
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To the New Mom Hiding Her Anxiety: You Don’t Have to Circle “A”
“I have been so unhappy that I have been crying” A) No, never B) Only occasionally C) Yes, quite often D) Yes, most of the time…
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A New Mom Can Feel Blessed and Thankful and Still Battle Postpartum Anxiety
My hands are blood-red as I turn the water as hot as I can stand and pump out what’s left of the soap. I’m here at the sink again frantically…
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This is What it Feels Like to Truly Love Your Children—But Feel Like You Want to Die At the Same Time
I laid on the bathroom floor, crying. My last pregnancy was one of the lowest points of my life. Logically, I knew I had many things in life to be…
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There’s a Monster Lurking in the Quiet Shadows of Motherhood
I didn’t see the anxiety coming for me until I had already been swept away in its current. At first, it was just a subtle change in my emotions.…
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There Are Times I Just Don’t Feel Like Myself
“So, how are you feeling?” my husband cautiously asked me, probably expecting me to bite his head off for asking. Our fourth baby had…
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To the Anxious Mom, You Are Not Invisible
I’ve seen you. I’ve seen you desperately cling to your baby while leaving him with a sitter for the first time. I’ve seen the glare…
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