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I was going to type a huge thing up here but I already blogged my story months ago. I'm posting the link so you can read a bit about what I went through. I know I'm not the only one and I found a lot of comfort in the comments left. The love and support I felt from all of you inspired me and my friend Jerri to start this group. If you've blogged your story, I encourage you to create your own discussion and share the link to your story for us to read. Then we can both comment on your post and return to your discussion to continue support as a community. If you didn't blog it and just want to talk about anything, this is the group to do it.

http://www.coolmomguide.com/depression

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Permalink Reply by Louise on November 8, 2008 at 4:39pm: So I tried to add a discussion and poured my heart out and IE crashed. I'll write it again later, but will help out with the support group in any way I can. This was a huge problem for me after my second child; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Nikki Massaro Kauffman on November 8, 2008 at 8:15pm: Hi Julie,

I read your post. I did not have PPD, but my family struggles with depression and bipolar disorder. My mother went decades before being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

My own depressive tendencies were alleviated by having children and focusing my attention away from my family. As the oldest of three, with a father who traveled, so it was hard for me not to take on my mother's problems: emotionally, financially, etc.

It was hard for my mother to finally admit she needed treatment and it's still a struggle to get her to agree to take the medication she needs. There are many kinds of regular medication people take for life; why should anti-depressants be stigmatized?

Thanks for sharing!

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Permalink Reply by Julie maloney on November 9, 2008 at 1:53pm: I finally just switched to Firefox because IE did that to me all the time, Louise.

Nikki-thanks for that comment. As I said in my post, there's a history of depression on both sides of my family so I knew I already suffered from general depression that I was dealing with. I was already on anti-depressants throughout my pregnancy. I think what shocked me was that I still had PPD even though I was already medicated. It was depression on top of depression. I ended up being double medicated for a while until I got a handle on things and now I'm back to my regular wellbutrin that I've been taking for years.; ▶ Reply to This