I wish I could be a positive force for women out there with mental illness that want children. But pregnancy is a lot harder than I thought and I already knew going in that it was gonna be tough.
I truly wouldn’t recommend this to anyone with severe issues unless they are actively working with specialists like a pdoc, therapist and obgyn on top of being medicated. Depression and anxiety I can’t speak for but living with schizoaffective disorder, it’s so hard. I’ve had a lot of troubles with keeping stable little points in my pregnancy so far but I have to remind myself that I need to be strong snd stable for my child.
I wouldn’t have taken this on if I didn’t think I could do it, myself. It’s almost another test to my resilience in a way. And strength.
But what I do know is it takes an extremely strong willed mind to go through pregnancy and to be pregnant. I can’t imagine women going through pregnancy who don’t want to be pregnant like through abuse or even teenagers. It’s wild to me. But then again I also deal with MI on top of it all so it’s already hard in that aspect for me.
I’m off my soapbox