The mom at the blog Go Erin Go! writes about having a bad day despite having progressed well on her recovery from postpartum depression. As I've shared with you before, this is normal. It happens to all of us.
Some people havesetbacks much worse than Erin's, as described in her post. For all of us, though, bad days tend to cause fears that we really aren't getting better. A bad day makes you feel like maybe you'll never get better. Maybe you were just fooled for a moment. Maybe the good days you started having were a fluke.
They weren't a fluke. They were real. And there will be more of them as long as you continue to take care of yourself and work with your doctor. Check out Erin's story, and then for more on setbacks with postpartum depression and anxiety, read this: The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Also, click the link for more stories on the process of recovery from postpartum depression.
Thanks for the post! I needed to read it! I still have bad days every once in awhile… but you are right, they are the exception and not the rule. But the always stike a fear in me that I am not getting better. It's good to be reminded that this is a normal attribute of recovery, and we are not alone!
YES!!!!! The good times are not a fluke and please don't let depression take them away from you.
I could never seem to have one good day and I lamented that to my best friend who told me, "Honey, we don't have good days, we have good moments."
It was the moments I learned to hang on to and stopped wishing for whole days. Eventually the PPD left and life was good. But, PPD taught me to stop wishing for the whole restaurant if all I need is a good meal. I appreciate the moments more.
One of the most important things my therapist explained to me was when she told me to picture a stock market stock chart, with all the jaggedy lines going up and down as time progresses. With a stock that goes up, you can still look back and see the jagged ups and downs, with the final result still being "up". She warned me that there would be some downs, but to hold on because they were just a drop in my journey up. It saved me on those days where I worried that I was going backwards again. But those bad days truly become fewer and far between – thank God. Great post!