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Anyone weaning off of brain medications (anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, etc.)?

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  • someturtlefan
    someturtlefan Posts: 10 Member
    Whenever I hear someone going off of meds for pregnancy, I think about this woman: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/magazine/the-secret-sadness-of-pregnancy-with-depression.html

    Mary Guest was pregnant and decided no meds was best for her baby. She got very depressed and jumped out a window during her 6th month. That harms the baby more than Prozac ever will, to be pithy.

    The effects of antidepressants on your baby are less than the effects of a depressed, non-functional mother on her baby. You want to be there fully for your child. You don't want to give him/her anything less. If your meds help you, please use them!!
  • 1mumrevolution
    1mumrevolution Posts: 269 Member
    To the OP (hi starlet) not currently weaning but when I was, I wished I had exercise in my recovery kit. I now exercise every day, be it pole, weights, cardio, walking/hiking and use exercise, the more intense and vigorous the better, to lift my flat mood and deliver happy hormones to my body. I might go to pole training feeling down, but will leave feeling up (unless I've had a session that sucked but that's a different thing).
    Can go into it in more detail on PM if you want.
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