I mentioned in a previous post that I had been seeing a therapist/counsellor for my depression/anxiety which has been brought on from this pregnancy.
I hadn't even realised you could get antenatal depression! It was through doing the standard Google self diagnosis that I discovered there even was such a thing. I had only heard of postnatal depression - this I understood as I had suffered from this after my first pregnancy, but the feeling of being on a constant low, feeling like a failure and generally worthless, was not something I was familiar with during pregnancy.
Around 10%of mums-to-be are affected - with women who have suffered from depression or anxiety previously at greater risk - and those figures could be set to rise if women aren't given the help and support they need to recognise and overcome the illness.
