After taking medication and going to therapy, Amanda2 noticed that her sleep was becoming more regular, her anxiety decreasing.

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So, I did go to the family doctor. I had a number of appointments with her and her colleagues in the office. She has a doctor that covers for her when she’s not there. I did end up making the decision to get started on an SSRI, an anti-depressant and that was I think in November of 2019. So, I started that. I was still trying to go to do the CBT therapy at that point. And then we got through Christmas of 2019 and things were improving. So, my sleep first and foremost was starting to regulate a bit and the anxiety was coming down.

[Prior to the SSRI kicking in,] I had lots and lots of big worries about there being something wrong with me mentally that was going to impact my ability to care for my girls. That was… When I think back it was a worry like no other. I could not be told otherwise or research enough on my own about what I might have and what was wrong with me and how to best treat it. I was also so preoccupied with there being something wrong with the kids.

So, I was signing up for these milestone, kind of, child development questionnaires online and constantly [playing a] reassurance [seeking] game. So, whether it was my parents or my husband or friends or you know, whoever would listen to me, right, “What’s wrong with me?”, “Is there something wrong with them.”; worried, you know, about speech, like all the things that – yeah, it was awful and this leap piece was – there’s just so many nights of insomnia.

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