Morning,
I'm a single parent to a 4 year old. I've been doing this alone since pregnancy.
No input from paternal side whatsoever; financially or otherwise.
I work full time and have done since 2015. I've had periods of feeling down, I live away from my family and , although I have friends locally where I live, I tend not to ask them too much to help out as they're busy too.
I've tried to do the right thing throughout but over the past month or so. This has been instigated by intimate loneliness, work pressures (changing job to try and boost my income), a business i started and am now closing and a general feeing of hopelessness. I was put on 20mg of fluoxetine beginning of last year and was taking that up until 6 weeks ago. I've had to go back on it.
I'm really down, I'm tired of battling and it feels like there's nothing to look forward to. My child is a happy soul so all good there, I try to conceal my sadness. I spend most of my time outside of work tidying and trying to sort the house, dealing with
Small person and slipping in meal times.
I've started the fluoxetine again but I do feel awful; testy, frustrated, inadequate... the whole shebang
I guess this is just a vent
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lolo14 · 24/06/2017 10:25
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