Anxiety since having kids!?!
Question: Ok, so I'm not sure exactly how to define this BUT here I go...I have had this weird pit in my stomach for months maybe years. I can't remember. Anyway, when I'm about to drive I imagine myself in a horrible accident with my kids. When I'm cooking I imagine that the pot of boiling macaroni tips off the stove and burns one of my children. I imagine the worst can happen and it makes me over paranoid about the safety of my kids. The strange thing is that I'm not over protective, I just have these moments when I have this fear that the worse will happen and that my children will get hurt or even killed. Anyone else have these horrible fears? Is this normal, or is this a type of anxiety that I should talk to my doc about?
Answers: Ok, so I'm not sure exactly how to define this BUT here I go...I have had this weird pit in my stomach for months maybe years. I can't remember. Anyway, when I'm about to drive I imagine myself in a horrible accident with my kids. When I'm cooking I imagine that the pot of boiling macaroni tips off the stove and burns one of my children. I imagine the worst can happen and it makes me over paranoid about the safety of my kids. The strange thing is that I'm not over protective, I just have these moments when I have this fear that the worse will happen and that my children will get hurt or even killed. Anyone else have these horrible fears? Is this normal, or is this a type of anxiety that I should talk to my doc about?
OMG!! I did! I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me...my biggest one was going over a bridge, and seeing like a movie playing in my windshield of my van going over the side of the bridge, and plunging into the water!!!
I mentioned it to my doctor, and I was put on medication for not anxiety...but depression! Turns out that this is a very common occurrence in women with onset of clinical depression.
Go talk to your doctor...really....it's AMAZING once it's gone!!
Good Luck
Momma P
Anxiety is normal, it serves a purpose for us humans...that is, until it becomes debilitating. If it is getting to the point that it is affecting the quality of your life, there is nothing wrong with mentioning it to your doctor, who can more thoroughly evaluate and characterize the anxiety. Keep yourself as strong as you can be, Mommy!
I have those feelings all the time. I guess I am going to have them for the rest of my life because thats how long I am going to worry and care about my kids for ... It really hits you in the guts when you think of the bad things that can happen, but then I would rather that, than not to care about them at all. Its probably not going to help much, but hopefully knowing that other parents (and I hope there are more than just us) feel strongly enough about their kids to worry that much, will mean that we are looking out for them.
This is something like post baby depression, normally called the baby blues.
You need to tell your doctor about this and get some proper medication. Sometimes these things become so vivid and the thoughts about the welfare of your kids become so animated that this drives women to actually murder their children to save them from the evils of the world. Post Partum Depression sometimes turns into Post Partum Psychosis.
Anxiety is a very common symptom of depression.
Maybe you have post-partum depression.
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So great to hear that I am not the only one who thinks like this. My child is almost two and I am constantly thinking of bad things that could happen. It doesn't interfere with my every day life but I am planning to talk to a doctor about it. I originally thought that I did not have post partum depression but I am beginning to think that I do. I have talked to lots of Moms who feel this way. When my child was 6 months old I was given an anti-anxiety and it really helped me with those types of thoughts.