After being fired at work while pregnant, Susan suffered from situational depression and was surprised when it continued after the birth of her daughter.

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And so when I was four months pregnant, I was fired from my job and I went from being a full-time career woman to being at home, having one income, being pregnant, not knowing what was coming next and just being terrified of everything that was to come. I started feeling really down about a month later. So it was in July that I was fired, in August I started feeling really down and I went to the doctor and they said it was situational depression and you know, the hormones and everything, it was really rough. I decided not to go on medication because I didn’t want to harm my daughter in anyway, so I suffered through it for the rest of my pregnancy.

I was so sure that when my daughter was born everything was going to be fine. I was going to feel happy again. I was going to have a purpose in my life because at that point I didn’t feel like I had a purpose. Suddenly I went from helping people every day to sitting on my couch watching that 70’s show on Netflix. And I felt like I wasn’t contributing to society. Like I didn’t have a purpose in life and I thought, when my daughter’s born, I’d have that purpose again. You know, I’ll be able to spend all day, every day with her snuggling, cuddling, having fun, you know, it’s going to be great.

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