I feel like an emotional trainwreck!

[peaceful herbivore]

someone please tell me this is normal and to be expected. Intellectually I know it probably is, but it is annoying, depressing, and sometimes it scares me a bit.

Let me first say I have always been a very sensitive, emotional, passionate person. Now that I know the definition, I believe I was a very *spirited* child as well. I have always felt that things affect me more deeply than maybe your average person. That of course, has its upsides and downsides. I am the type of person who cries at touching commercials.

Anyway, with much soul searching, working on myself and my *issues*, having a healthy, loving marriage, has all helped me become a more level person. I don't believe I suffer from bipolar or anything like that, however, I do believe I am hyper sensitive.

Being pregnant though is a whole different story. Lately, I find myself getting SO upset at the tiniest things, being SO hurt and upset over something my husband says, or doesn't say, or does or doesn't do, and it is getting out of control at some points. I don't mean out of control in the sense that I get violent or anything like that, just that my emotions feel out of control. I mean, I can cry for like 30 minutes because of something so minor or silly, or for example, my husband may say something that under any normal circumstance woould maybe make me a *tad* upset, but being pregnant, it will like WOUND me....know what I mean?

I guess I am scared because I don't know if this is just hormones, or what. I think it is, because everything in my life is pretty wonderful. We want this baby SO much, everything is pretty much done as far as frozen meals, supplies for homebirth, car seat etc....I don't have to work and am able to be a SAHM like I wanted, my husband is wonderful we have a healthy stable relationship, he is supportive and loving. We are financially okay. In other words, I don't see anything external that would really be causing this. On the other hand though, I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse. If it IS hormones, I am terrified of postpartum depression. I wouldn't even say I was depressed now, as I don't feel this way for long periods of time at all, but when I do feel this way, it is intense. It is not even depression really, it is more like, my normal feelings, but magnified 10x ...if that makes any sense.

Maybe I just needed to vent! Anyone going through this?

[Goldiemom]

I am not going through that now, but I have gone through it several times during all of my pg's. I seem to have a period of time during each trimester where my hormones make me extremely emotional. To me that sounds like what is going on with you. I have no idea if that will make it more likely for you to get PPD. That is outside my realm of experience. :Hug

[peaceful herbivore]

Thanks for the input! I am feeling better today, I guess I needed to vent or something!

[mightymoo]

I am similar - pregnancy makes me very sensitive, though it seems to be the first/second trimester the worst - it gets better for me in the third. I mean completely silly like I'll be bawling at a saturn commercial. I will say that I have been diagnosed with depression in the past and gone through treatment for it, I had this sort of volitile sensitivity with my DD and I didn't get postpartum depression - I was very nervous about getting it having had regular depression. I did find that I am still a bit more sensitive than I was before I had my first child, mostly in terms of empathy.

[Slackermom]

Absolutely, there were points during my pg that I was as sensitive as you describe. I remember wondering if there were such a thing as PRE-partum depression. It didn't last though...those hormones are wondrous things!