Hi I'm struggling to find out about PTSD following childbirth. I have been diagnosed with this following a very bad birth year this year. I'm not ready to talk about the details. Well my counsellor says I have to stop saying "I can't". I have a beautiful healthy baby as a result of the birth so feel like I shouldn't complain but still really struggling to come to terms with it all. I avoid anyone who is pregnant and can't bear to be around new mums as everyone seems to want to out do each other on who had the worst birth and some people just don't know what a truly bad birth can be like - i now know that these are classic PTSD symptoms. I'm worried people will think its just PND when it isn't. Does it get better? Do people think I should have moved on by now? do people think I have no right to complain when we both survived? too many questions
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