Mood Swings - How to tell what your real feelings are?

[Kepherax]

Hi, I'm 36, pregnant for the first time, completely unexpected accident - I did not want to have a kid until I was done with my graduate degree in a few years, just found out 6 days ago and am 5 weeks 6 days (I know the exact day of the "oopsie"). I literally don't know how I feel about it (my SO and I are figuring out what we want to do - he wants to keep it, I sometimes want to keep it, but honestly don't know). I've noticed that bouts of anger, sadness, being okay, etc. are just sort of coming and going not necessarily attached to anything. I'm having trouble telling what my real feelings are, and being very attached to logic typically (and sort of a self control freak), this is very frustrating and annoying.

Does this pass at some point? How long did it take you to decipher the pattern and mentally adjust to the hormone flux if you experienced this? I don't feel like I'm living in reality. I also have PTSD so it's getting a bit conflated with that, which is unpleasant.

 

[WinterWolf]

I'm 11 months post-partum and still have awful mood swings haha. They're down to lack of sleep now, though. Hormones can cause them until you've given birth and stopped breastfeeding. Pregnancy wise, everything usually settles down some time in tri 2 but can come back with a vengeance in tri 3. They'll probably peak when baby is a newborn as your body gets used to not being pregnant.