Constantly behind on everything. Housework (though we had a big blitz this weekend and it's feeling more manageable now), doing stuff with DS (I feel like I let him watch too much TV while I veg on the internet and hardly ever play with him because it's boring), and my uni work - it's been 9 weeks of a 10 week term and I've not done the reading for even one lecture. I have time over Christmas to get prepared for next term, but still.
I just constantly seem to have this fuzziness or blankness in my head which wipes out my ability to concentrate, remember things or be motivated at all. And then because I haven't done the preparation for stuff I can't put my all into the stuff that I am doing, and then I feel crap for not doing as well as I could, or as well as I want to, even. And then because I feel crap from that I just feel tired and like I'm too exhausted/blank/fuzzy/feeling sorry for myself to want to do any preparation for the next thing, so when that comes up I am unprepared for that as well.
And then it just goes on a spiral of - I'm crap at X - I'm crap at Y - nobody likes me (which isn't true!!) and I don't know if I'm doing things right and the anxiety kicks in then and I just want to stay at home and curl into a ball and do nothing and see nobody and not deal with anything which then makes the pile of stuff I haven't caught up on bigger.
I just look at other people and don't know how they fit everything in around the times they feel like this, and then I realised that probably other people don't feel like this? Someone told me that what I describe is depression, but what does that mean? Does it mean I'm just like this forever? Do I have to take pills? Can you get over depression? I have tried going to the GP and he said I needed to speak to my HV and come back and then by the time I worked up the nerve to phone and make another appointment it had been so long he couldn't remember what my HV had said and so I just - it's hard because when I'm down I don't feel able to talk about it and when I feel fine I find it hard to articulate because I can't remember what this feels like.
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Is it normal to feel like this?
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BertieBotts · 29/11/2011 23:19
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