So confused.

Ugh, okay. So I went to the doctors and got diagnosed with postpartum depression. & they prescribed me Celexa. I am getting really bad anxiety about starting this anti depressant, I just don't like the idea of something effecting my brain, it scares the smurf outta me.. i don't know what to do.. my husband strongly recommends me taking them, but I don't feel like he gets where I'm coming from, & I kind of feel like if i don't take them it's going to put a huge strain on our marriage.. but I don't know if it's just the depression in me that's making me feel this way or if this is really how I feel. I'm just really scared and the fact I have to take it for 6 weeks before it even works, and then they want me on it for a whole freaking year.. then i have to be tapered off.. it freaks me out. I'm not taking it for a whole year.. ugh, I freaking hate this. Idk what to do. :/

So what is your other option for help? Do nothing? Suffer?

Take the pills. It WILL help. PPD is nothing to smurf around with

Well weigh up pros and cons Hun there probably only to help u through the depression and they will take u off them

I'd take the pills.
PPD isn't a joke, I was nervous to start new meds but it helped a lot.

I just don't like the thought of something altering my brain and my thoughts and who I am. I feel like it's taking away from who I am...
& no one understands that, so I must just be really freaking crazy for feeling this way apparently.

Quoting Tiffany Gillette:" I just don't like the thought of something altering my brain and my thoughts and who I am. I feel like ... [snip!] ... away from who I am... & no one understands that, so I must just be really freaking crazy for feeling this way apparently."

If you don't want to take a pill, I'd set up counseling first and see if that helps. I don't like taking medicine either, because like you, I just don't like the idea of being "altered". I had horrid PPD after my second was born. I truly believe I was borderline PPP. I went to counseling and it helped LOADS.

I would try counseling, and then if after that, take the pills. PPD, is a serious problem, though, and shouldn't be taken lightly.

Quoting Penises 3:Vaginas 1:" If you don't want to take a pill, I'd set up counseling first and see if that helps. I don't like ... [snip!] ... try counseling, and then if after that, take the pills. PPD, is a serious problem, though, and shouldn't be taken lightly. "

Thanks. someone understands..
Maybe I will do that..

Quoting Tiffany Gillette:" Thanks. someone understands.. Maybe I will do that.."

It shouldn't be a maybe. You need to get better. PPD isn't something you can put on the back burning and HOPE it gets better. Because it will more then likely escalate. I waited a long time to get mine in check and it took me visualizing horrible things to make me go. It could have already been to late, because I didn't want to admit I had a problem. KWIM?

I have been on several antidepressants throughout the years, and I have to say Celexa(Citalopram) was the most gentle, and it worked the best for me. I didn't get the "Oh, the kids are writing all over the walls? Who cares! Woo-Hoo" roller coaster feeling. It worked quickly, and I still felt like myself, more in control.

If that's not the route you want to take, though, try counseling first, and see if that helps. Good luck to you!

thank you. 10 characters kiss my ass

PPD sucks. I have a touch of it, but i dont take pills. Cant. I breastfeed.

Get a second opinion IMO.

Im very sorry hunny, i really hope everything turns out.

Like i said, second opinion, tell them your concerns.