Drugs are the easy out for physicians to recommend, too easy, in my opinion (and the following is my opinion - based on growing up in a household of a psychiatric social worker practitioner.) And you do have an infant to care for, you can't be zonked.

Freud called psychotherapy "the talking cure" for a good reason - it is indeed a cure. The drugs aren't a cure, they defer the problem until later.

It has been said that talking to a good friend can be as therapeutic as counseling. Getting it off your chest, looking at it from different angles. I went into counselling a couple of times when I was college age, and before the divorce, and found it helped me to understand what I was feeling. It also gave me a process to work through things on my own. That residual effect of counselling is worth its weight in gold.

Whether you find a cancer survivor's support group, a new best friend, or a counselor, I hope you'll find something, and soon, so you don't have to go the drug route. You'll feel better in the long run.

SRS