I never really thought I had PPD, but looking back:
While pregnant and post-partum (until I stopped breastfeeding, really), my work productivity and all that went really downhill. While pregnant, I was just too exhausted, physically and mentally. Afterwards, I was just wandering around in a mental fog. Seriously, all I wanted to do was be with my baby. I could care less about work and could barely concentrate enough to give it a half-slap-dash effort. I'm thankfully surprised I didn't get fired during that time. But, there was never any feeling of being a "bad mom" or anything. Bad Soldier, bad sergeant, yes, but not bad mom. My husband is and was a SAHD and takes care of the kids while I work, so there were no worries about the kids and their safety or if they were doing well and happy.
The symptoms went away when I started eating better (and cut all gluten out of my diet and stopped being vegetarian) and fully went away when I weaned the baby. I was never actually diagnosed with anything, and never sought diagnosis. All this really became clear afterwards.
Can PPD show up as loss of interest and such in things not related to the baby?
While pregnant and post-partum (until I stopped breastfeeding, really), my work productivity and all that went really downhill. While pregnant, I was just too exhausted, physically and mentally. Afterwards, I was just wandering around in a mental fog. Seriously, all I wanted to do was be with my baby. I could care less about work and could barely concentrate enough to give it a half-slap-dash effort. I'm thankfully surprised I didn't get fired during that time. But, there was never any feeling of being a "bad mom" or anything. Bad Soldier, bad sergeant, yes, but not bad mom. My husband is and was a SAHD and takes care of the kids while I work, so there were no worries about the kids and their safety or if they were doing well and happy.
The symptoms went away when I started eating better (and cut all gluten out of my diet and stopped being vegetarian) and fully went away when I weaned the baby. I was never actually diagnosed with anything, and never sought diagnosis. All this really became clear afterwards.
Can PPD show up as loss of interest and such in things not related to the baby?
