Amanda1 was nervous about taking antidepressants (Celexa) during pregnancy, so stopped taking them but needed to resume post-delivery.
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I was on medication so I’d been on Celexa for a little while. Um I was really nervous when I was pregnant about staying on the Celexa. You know, I was terrified it would be just one more thing that could possibly harm my baby. So I kind of went off of it while I was pregnant and I needed to go back on it once she was born. And that’s okay, you know. So the antidepressants definitely were a part of getting better and I think they just – they just were one more thing to support you when you’re going through this. So I probably – um if I hadn’t had that, you know, it none of the other things would’ve worked, right. Like I needed, I needed every single aspect of this to really work.
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