I am a mum who got depressed when my daughter was one because I wasn't working and regretted giving up my job .. Do you feel like this ? I'm writing a big article about this for a leading newspaper. I need women who want to talk about the problems with staying at home looking after small children and then not being able to afford to go back to work or finding that they can not go back to work at the level they were before , I have noticed a trend of my friends who left careers in the excitement and flush of new motherhood only to find that not using their brain actually can lead to bona fide depression - sadness lack of energy feeling isolated , feeling less than your friends ...if you feel this please talk to me ? <img border="0" src="/emo/te/1.gif" alt="smile">