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The good, bad, and funny. Two years ago I hit rock bottom and if you listen to my podcast on a regular you'll know I have an

episode called one year ago. I hit rock bottom. It is episode 22, June

2022 is when I recorded it and it was the celebration of one year in therapy, one year on antidepressants and that feels like yesterday

but I can't believe it's been almost a year since I talked about that stuff with you guys and if

you follow me on social media you'll know that back in November I got off of

antidepressants and I feel like I owe you guys a little bit of a mental health

update a little bit of a life update so let's jump into that.

I have no script for this and I'm just going to chat with you guys. I'm going to pretend you're all sitting here in my room with me and we're going to chat.

So back in November 2022 I decided that I wanted to get off antidepressants because I felt like I was in a really good place with therapy.

Therapy was giving me a lot of good resources and options of how to cope with a lot of stressors. And the type of therapy I was going through was

situational. My therapist is specialized in postpartum and mental health in motherhood.

So with her, it was kind of like a goal setting therapy.

Like once you meet certain goals you move on to the

next and or you kind of just graduate from therapy a lot of people were like

really shook when I explain that because there are therapists that do like maintenance therapy.

This specific type of therapy I was doing was very situational.

I think my diagnosis was called like adjustment disorder secondary to postpartum depression and anxiety.

So I felt like therapy was going really well. I was meeting a lot of my so there were days where I would definitely not use any of the techniques and then other days where I felt like really good about it.

And with my therapist and doctor, I have a nurse practitioner actually who handles all my mental health stuff.

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