Did you have postpartum depression after you had any of your children?

I believe I had it. I wasn't psycho or anything, but I was very depressed. Especially after I had my son. I live 200 miles away from all of my family. My son's father isn't a part of his life, so I was completely alone except for my daughter who was only 5 years old at the time. My parents were here for his birth but could only stay a few days after he was born. After that I was on my own and it was so hard. I got hardly no sleep, he would wake up so much. I never will forget the day my parents left after he was born. My dad said two words to me, "Stay Strong". Those words have stayed with me every day since he told me that. I felt then and still feel the same now, that I have no one I can depend on except myself so I have no choice but to be strong for myself and my children. I think it is my strength that got me through my postpartum depression.

They called what I had postpartum depression but, I don't think it really fits the stereotype. I thought I was having seperation issues because once my son turned to weeks old I was only able to spend twenty minutes a day with him. See I was still in highschool and I worked full time. My best friend spent the most time with him. I hard a couple bad flipouts where I went off on her reminding her she wasn't his mother I was and, telling her she needed to have her own baby and quit tryin to steal mine and some other stuff. I was so aweful to her and at the time I really didn't mean to be or even realize how aweful I was. All ahe was trying to do was help me out. We're still friends thank goodness and, I still apologize to her from time to time for acting so aweful.