Hello, long time lurker being brave today and hoping for some outside perspective and some of the amazing wisdom I've read on other threads.
The background is that last year was a pretty tough one - my DD8 had some tough times at school in the spring, in the summer I was made redundant from the small business I had helped to grow over 12 yrs (after it was acquired twice in 6 months). My husband who also works there was also extremely stressed and eventually in September was diagnosed with severe depression inc suicidal thoughts. (He is now on the mend :)
By the time I got to Christmas I was really tired (we also have 50% of all family birthdays in Nov and Dec so very busy) and hoping for a bit of R&R. Nice Christmas and Boxing day but on 27th my DD broke her leg and we ended up overnight in hosp then a tough first week at home with her in a lot of pain, unable to go to the loo on her own and not much decent sleep etc.
Anyway over last week I began to feel more and more exhausted and stressed, by Friday afternoon I just had to go to bed with a splitting headache and exhaustion, and feeling very emotional. So have spent the weekend asleep/in bed. Have managed to get up and dressed today but still very tired and headache and feeling low and my head/brain just feels so foggy, achy I simply can't think about anything beyond the very basic like put this washing in the machine. It's snowing and I'd usually be out with the kids on the sledge but just can't rouse myself.
I have suffered from mild depression in the past and I think on and off last year with hindsight, but am wondering is this just exhaustion/something more. Finding it hard to think straight but at the same time my mind is whirring trying to work out what's going on. The thought of my kids having two depressed parents is really upsetting, but at the same time I need to know what's going on so I can hopefully find a way out of all this. So your thoughts would be much appreciated. (sorry ended up being so long!)
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Not sure what's going on - is it depression?
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ColouringInQueen · 14/01/2013 14:34
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