Its been a long year for everyone, but I've hit a wall. 2 DC, nearly full time job, husband doing shift work that can't be done from home. Just bounced into the second round if isolation in 3 weeks for the 4yo and was trying to juggle working half days around him because I don't have much annual left. I suppose I could have asked for unpaid parental leave to cover the time instead. Just kept wanting to sob all the time, had to leave several meetings because I knew I was going to cry on someone. GP was very sympathetic and said I probably just needed some time to try and switch off and regroup after the past 8 months of trying to juggle everything constantly.
I've never been signed off like this. I feel guilty because it's hardly like I'm going through something that no one else is - there's thousands of parents trying to cope like this with young kids.
Any tips to shift this guilt and try to actually use the time off to feel less stressed?