Depression during pregnancy?

I am 24 weeks pregnant and for a month now I have been suffering from horrible depression. Everything bad that could happen, has happened. I have never handled stress well and was on medication before I was pregnant. My doctor and I decided to stop taking it during pregnancy. I went to him last week and asked to be put back on Lexapro and he said no.
I have only gained 2 pounds (I am in my 6th month) and my anxiety and fear is getting out of hand. I can’t sleep and have trouble wanting to eat. Some days all I can do is sleep. What can I do. I am willing to try support groups, light therapy. But apparently medication is out of the question for me. On top of all of this, the nurse made me feel worst. She told me I should be happy just thinking about the baby. I am, but my mind can’t get out of this funk.
Any non-medication suggestions would help!!!

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How do I know if I need Antidepressants?

I’ll try to make this short as possible but I think the information is relevant. Three months ago i had a health issue that obviously made me very anxious. I was put on 30 of cymbalta. Sometime in the middle of the treatment I found out that my health concern turned out to be nothing, so I stopped taking cymbalta after 23 days.

I knew better than that, but my situational anxiety alleviated it’s self so I thought I no longer neded the anti depression med. The next four days i went nutts. So I started taking it again. I started getting visual migraines which increased my anxiety so my dr. switched me to zoloft. On zoloft 50 mg then 100mg I felt awful like I was on chemo therapy or something. Dizziness blurred vision light headedness and crazy increase in anxiety and continued visual migraines. My dr wanted to try lexapro. I was growing rather frustrated with jumping from one to another cause all this started as a result of a situational depression that alleivated it’s self.

So I decided to taper off the zoloft for a month and see what would happen. No relief from the light headed feeling, blurred vision and headaches and visual migraines. None of these things I ever had before I started taking antidepressants. I’m now taking wellbutrin 150xl in the morning and have been taking it for about three weeks. Still get lightheaded and dizzy and have occasional blurred vision. I’m starting to think that I never needed these things from the start but now am afraid that I will never be able to get off of them. Does anyone have any suggestions or similar stories?

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