Postpartum Anxiety: When You Can't Stop Worrying
You thought you’d be tired, yes, but also happy. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own life, or maybe you feel nothing at all, and that absence frightens you more than sadness would. Postpartum depression affects up to 1 in 5 women, and that number is likely higher because so many cases go unreported. It responds to treatment, and you don’t have to wait it out.
Postpartum Depression: Signs and Support
If you’ve been told to “just relax,” you know how unhelpful that advice is. The relationship between anxiety and fertility is real, but the solution isn’t forcing yourself to calm down. We work on anxiety because you’re suffering, and you don’t have to suffer this much, and because when your nervous system settles, your body often responds in ways that support conception.