I was still in the process of going off meds when I got pregnant with my first. I had terrible morning sickness, was still dealing with medication discontinuation symptoms (from SSRIs) and went off ADHD meds. It was hard...that’s an understatement. I almost got fired because of my “moods” but mostly because a co-worker grossly exaggerated a bit of a fit I had and two of 3 bosses believed her.

I worried a lot about my baby because I was very stressed when I thought I’d lose my job. I was depressed a lot, my moods were horrible. I probably should have stayed on meds, but I was i to month 5 of tapering off them when I got pregnant and just didn’t want to go back on them (I experience extremely bad withdrawal. My daughter was born healthy and is almost 3 and is very healthy.

My second pregnancy was better, but got hard at the end as I had twins. I moved when I was pregnant too and the stress almost did me in. I just started shutting down. I couldn’t handle anything.

Are you going to do DBT? It could help a lot, it helped me a lot.