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Anxiety at 25 weeks
I'm a ftm and I'm 25 weeks pregnant and I've suffered from anxiety since I was a little girl. Through my pregnancy I've had stress and a ton of it but nothing triggered me. About 2 days ago I went to the hospital because I had a panic attack I couldn't catch my breath and I was shaking and nauseous and a crying mess. I've never really had panic attacks where I can't take a deep breath. I got released the told me it was all my anxiety because my lungs and heart were healthy. When I got home and the days passed every day it'd happen throughout the day and sometimes I feel like I won't be able to catch my breath and panic and it gets worse, has this happened to anyone? Any tips :(
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Hon, you are going to need to get yourself healthy. This I know from experience, that babies can pick up on their mothers moods especially new borns and i would assume they can pick up on it inutero. If you go about doing the same as you've done to take care of/or not your anxieties, then I guarantee you have a high chance of your baby being high strung and fussy and crying all the time and nothing consoles it. Why, cus its had 9 months of living with your anxiety inutero and knows nothing different, all it thinks is this is what 'normal' is and how one is supposed to feel all the time. Not that babies can reason with their minds this way. But they do learn things inside, like the sound of their parents voices so at birth they will recognize and turn to their parents rather than others.
I recently read a book called "When Anxiety Attacks" by David D. Burns and it all makes sense as to how one develops anxieties and how one gets over it. Yes there is a way. If you get hold of the book, it will give you hope that there is hope for you but even in the book it took Dr Burns working several different angles to help a client discover what their actual anxiety trigger is, and then healing exercises he knows to help heal the person. Usually its not something extremely recent but some event some time back that is the key of what started it, of not acknowledging your own worries or concerns on something, feeling like your choice was taken away, afraid of what other people will think of you, etc. are some common ones. Do try and start reading the bood and find a therapist in your area who deals in the CBT and TEAM methods of helping patients rather than just prescribing meds first thing to mask the problem. In only a small percent are people not helped by these non drug methods and still require medication. But those who have suffered exactly the same as you or worse are now cured and the great part is that it doesnt take years but only as many sessions and your diligence in carrying out the homework in your life to get better so in a couple months form the book, people were healed, no longer requiring the Dr. and free of anxieities and depression.
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I'm not a doctor so I cannot offer medical advice. If in all other ways you are healthy then the problem is either something environmental. Meaning something at home is triggering the attacks or it is a mind over matter problem. Meaning something is bothering you that you may not even be aware of that is triggered by something?
Try and think about the past few days and what was different about them that may have been the trigger. I know being pregnant can cause a form of anxiety one that all expectant parents have; especially the moms.
You have 40 weeks to realize you’re going to have a little person totally dependent upon you for everything. It is scary and dads feel it too. It becomes truly real for the mom when she feels the baby move for the first time.
I can tell you this. For the majority of us we become good parents as it is somewhat instinctive starting with the first time you hold your baby. Most of us manage to raise our children to be good citizens and to become good parents themselves when the time comes. Your maternal instincts will guide you and as our doctor told us. "Just enjoy your baby for their is very little if anything you will do that I can't fix."
My child is now 40 a paramedic-Firefighter with over a dozen lives saved in his career. My wife and I must have done something right for him to turn out as he has and you will too so don't let becoming a parent scare you and cause these attacks for you will do just fine.
If you cannot pin point what the trigger is for these attacks, which are not good for you or your baby. Then what I suggest is you seek out the help of a good therapist. Talk therapy with a trained therapist, someone like a psychologist, can do wonders in pin pint pointing and learning to deal with the triggers of these attacks. Once you can find out why the happen dealing with the triggers becomes easy. I think you will be surprised as to what causes these attacks and why they happen. Once you do you will be able to deal with them.
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