To ask What's the most pressing thing on your mind at the moment?

Money for Christmas.
Money for finishing our huge renovation project.
How unbearably cold our house is and will increasingly so until we finish the work.
What I really want to do job wise as I approach 40.
Moving my DDs school already in year 7 at her plea and knowing I'm moving her from a bad school to a similarly bad one with some pros thrown in to make it hopefully worth while.
My DH health - mental health and physical health - upcoming lung scan.

At the moment I'm really worried about the mental health of my loved ones. Quite a few of them are really struggling and I don't know what to do.

I am recovering from a broken foot. It still feels very painful and I am not sure if it's healing right or not. I would say obsessing over my foot occupies about 90% of my day right now.

That my 15yr old DD doesn’t want to go to her dads anymore. And I don’t blame her one bit, he went to work overseas for 3yrs, at crucial age for her and her 19yr old DS, arriving back last March. Only to announce he was bringing back a new wife and her 15yr old son. They arrived in July. DD is very shy, we are both thinking she could possibly be autistic and it’s been not diagnosed but that’s beside the point. It’s a shitty thing to do, my DD had met them both twice, and once was at the surprise wedding he planned when she was over there for half term. The plan was she did 50/50 and she did 2 months and last 6wks refused to go, now just sees her dad for lifts to school which is pretty shitty

My elderly mum had a fall and is in hospital with 5 fractured ribs - she is stuck in A&E as there are no beds and she is high risk of pneumonia

I got tin foil hats for sale on eBay, if anyone's interested and feeling vulnerable right now

It’s a perfectly valid question on a site continually combed for copy by lazy journalists.

Family bereavement
Husband’s abusive boss
Work deadlines and management issues
Upcoming exams
Children’s school places
Dear friends emigrating
DS’s behaviour
Leaking ceiling
Cost of Christmas
The future that DCs will have

My husband. He had an MRI for debilitating back pain last Friday following a diagnosis of osteoarthritis.

On Monday the GP called us and told us he had 5 broken vertebrae indicating cancer in his spine. Into acute oncology to be told it was likely a secondary cancer so quite advanced.

on my mind right now..... waiting for PET scan to get some clarification and a prognosis.

we’re scared.

Our wedding. Remaining wedmin & payments. Luxury problem to have but it's later this month so it is looming large in our thoughts.

Otherwise: my fathers sudden decline in health and my mum being very down, the fact we both hate our jobs vs needing the money, Israel and worrying about increasing anti-semitism, our manky bathroom needing work & being the next project, Christmas.

Children and the future for my severely disabled son.

My DHs new company and decision to live off savings for a few months whilst he gets it established.

Everyone's health given the state of the NHS

Wider environmental/world concerns.

My main strategy has been to distract myself with exercise when worrying and try to get everyone to eat healthily as at least it feels it will help a little both in term of mood and our family's gealth.

My DD- is she going to school? Her behaviour
My DH and his wider family due to a very recent horrific family tragedy
finances - never enough money
My house falling down (not quite but needs lots of money spent on it which we don't have )

Israel.
Being poor

My cat's poorly feet :( She has pododermatitis, and tests suggest it's the start of an autoimmune disease :(

My Open University module. I love it but there's a lot to get through and some of it is really difficult!

I find it interesting that people worry about things outside of their control.
Of course, the situation in Israel/Gaza is serious, but if I worry about it I won't change anything - worrying about it is pointless, so I just don't.
I can understand worrying about an exam or job interview, because I would be able to influence them, but then my stress would motivate me to perform or work hard, so it's not necessarily a bad thing - we do need adrenaline.
I suspect that as we get older, we realise that worrying is not worth the effort in most instances, so we do it less. Also, as we get older we realise that nothing is new in life, so we can be more sanguine (e.g. there has been war in the Middle East for thousands of years).

Trying to come to terms with my fucked up family and how my DM turned a blind eye to my SF's highly inappropriate behaviour towards me as a child/teenager. I'm LC with DM and NC with SF for now but trying to figure out if/how that's going to look going forward and whether or not I'm going to blow my family up by telling them why. Feel like I'm hiding right now and it's getting more difficult to fend off DM's questions and attempts to see me, am having counselling but it's slow progress and feel like I'm running out of time.

I worry about

My husband's mental health
My mother's mental health, close to retirement with no pension, lives alone..
My daughter's mental health, 2nd year at uni but I'm always worrying about her
The state of this country
The neverending cycle of global violence
Climate change
My own mental health

I distract myself by drinking wine, doing yoga, scrolling a lot of mumsnet, I used to read constantly but now I struggle...

Worrying about whether I will get a new contract role this year.
Worrying about whether I can find someone to service my entire heating system, not just the boiler.
Worrying about my teeth and gums as have just had extensive treatment, but am not really feeling any benefits.

-DSS mental health is in tatters right now and we can't let him out of our sight
-DP has had some worrying test results so we are back at the GP this week
-I need to get a house deposit together to give us all more stability and security

To cope I lie awake at night mumsnetting while the house is silent, cuddle the little DDs who have no concept of what's going on with DSS

Sending you love and strength

Money. I distract myself by going on MN and reading about other people's problems 😅

@Ovoconfused thank you. That made me cry, means a lot. It truly is the worst of times.

@Moveoverdarlin they would want you 😊 don’t ask yourself if they’ll like you, ask if you’ll like them!