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Please no bashing. Can anyone help me or if you have been in a similar situation could u give any advice. I am suffering for pregnancy related anxiety. I have anxiety outwith pregnancy but it is heightened to the extent I struggle daily to keep it together while pregnant. I have 3 daughters and I am expecting our much longed for son and I am terrified something is going to happen to him. I am 20 weeks. I struggle to interact with my girls as my mind is so consumed with the worst happening I can’t even hear properly sometimes. I have multiple anxiety attacks everyday. I have nightmares about my baby dying and having to bury him. I google every possible bad outcome so that I can somehow prepare and prevent them and I know how crazy this all sounds this is the first I’ve written it down and I am embarrassed. I have been offered medication but was warned it may have ill effects for the baby and I would need fortnightly scans if I started them so my anxiety will just not allow me to take anything, but then I cannot get rid of the anxiety without doing so. It is a catch 22. I am completely miserable. I am not a great mother to my girls in my current state yet they are the only thing keeping me going. Talking doesn’t help, cbt doesn’t help (all tried in previous pregnancies) and I’m just not sure how much longer I can carry on like this. No-one understands. My consultant and midwife are both aware and I’m not even sure what I’m expecting from this post but I am just feeling very mentally drained and fragile at the moment and don’t know where else to turn
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