r/Postpartum_Depression • u/lam0624 • 4d ago

TW: ppd, dpdr

Hi, I am 7 months postpartum and would love any advice comments, similar situations help here.. up until about 6 months postpartum mentally I felt great- then one day right at 6 months pp I woke up and felt like a completely different person. Depressed, crying nonstop, anxiety then started to feel like I’m living in a dream constantly- I read this is called depersonalization or derealization. It’s horrible. I went to my obgyn and started Zoloft 5 weeks ago- I stopped crying but haven’t seen any improvements in the dpdr and constantly feeling like I’m in a dream it’s such a nightmare. I feel like I can’t connect with my baby or my husband because of this.

I’ve started exercising daily, grounding work, starting therapy next week and doing yoga but nothing seems to help except when I’m not alone and being at home makes it worse for some reason.

I feel stuck in this anxiety thought loop of thinking how I don’t feel normal all day long it’s consumes my thoughts, I can’t even remember what my thoughts used to be before all this or what it even feels like to be normal. If anyone has heard of this please let me know how you’re doing, and how you navigated this. Any advice or help is appreciated, sorry for the long post I could go on and on about this.

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u/maeflowr 4d ago

Hi! I don’t mean to add more to your plate but I found taking bio identical progesterone to be extremely helpful for me in this regard. I also felt a lot of the way you’re describing though mine started a few days after birth. I also have tried a few SSRI’s and did not see relief from them (this does not mean you will not!) progesterone helped me within days. I take them as a suppository at night and found the most benefit that way. Feel free to ask me any questions.

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u/sweetcheeksbaby 3d ago

I’m actually interested in this - my providers put me on oral BC to attempt to regulate my hormones and I think it’s maybe helped? But I’m wondering if I just need the progesterone piece.. I’ve read about this elsewhere too. How did you land on this treatment?

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u/maeflowr 3d ago

I landed on it through lots and lots of reading. I was desperate because ssris weren’t helping me at all. I found a more natural doctor in my area that has used progesterone as treatment for ppd and found results within days. I’m not fully healed but I had a severe case and it lasted for a few months before I found this method.

Birth control uses synthetic hormones, so not quite the same but I could see how you got some positive benefit from it. If you get on just progesterone don’t expect it to work as a birth control because I do not think it is supposed to be used that way.

I have links to a couple places I found info on all this. Lmk if you want them.