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Anyone else just feel totally overwhelmed / burned out?

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SinkGirl · 01/06/2021 14:34

I’m having a really tough time at the moment. I just feel completely overwhelmed by everything and the thought of doing the things I need to do sends me into a panic.

Two week half term currently (twins attend a specialist school with different term dates). I have a very part time job and a very small business - I have a stack of forms for things I need to fill in (school, EHCP reviews, DLA for mobility as they are approaching 5, sleep clinic) and various things for work and my business. House is a total shit tip.

My fatigue is shocking at the moment (I have ME and gynae issues). I just want to hide under a duvet but obviously that’s not possible.

Do other people feel burned out like this? Last year was obviously brutal for everyone, we had the twins at home most of the year plus tribunals for their education and I just feel like I’ve been going non stop and now I’m collapsing.

Fully intend to have a couple of rest days when they are back at school two weeks today but somehow need to get through the next two weeks!

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GreenTeaBlackCoffeeAndRedWine · 03/06/2021 04:29

Me too, and I don't know why. Everything just feels like it's so difficult and my sleep has gone all over the place again.

readingismycardio · 03/06/2021 04:33

I feel the same, OP. I never admitted it to anyone IRL but we're ttc. I hope it's not going to be a long, exhausting journey...

I'm going to have 8 exams in the next month.

Work is crazy.

DanglySpider · 03/06/2021 07:30

You could almost be me, OP. 2 DSs (not twins, but 20 months apart), both at special school and have Autism. Youngest not long had ADHD dx, so going through meds hurdles, and older just on second stage of waiting list.

I'm completely done atm. Our CAMHS LD Family Support Worker has written to my GP (with my permission) about my depression. DH is stressed with his work being busier than ever - while we're lucky to have it, he hates it, and it causes him extra stress (from people being mindless, selfish wankers) he doesn't need.

I have two older kids too, from a previous relationship, one at uni (who is permanently depressed) and another who's just finished A-levels and pretty much has been at his father's perpetually since lockdown began.

It's not been helped by being highly educated but not able to earn money for years. I have always had a crap immune system, but a 5-year period of being house/bed bound made me do a degree with the OU, in fear of having to give up my well-paid but virtually non-existent work.

So I did that, then a Masters, and two years of producing a film as work experience (a whole other story), and as that all finished, the pandemic hit. So I started a small company while homeschooling - and that's taken up so much time I never have time to write, so I'm probably going to have to strike it off soon. BUT, on the up side, I have a tv pilot that seems to be slowly be going somewhere good.

The house is a shit pit, I can't ever seem to get a full day of washing done, and seem to be rewashing the same load for weeks now, and the youngest is literally driving me mental with stimming snippets of videos and his own stimming noises. To top it off we're currently also down with a horrible throaty shitty virus thing that won't fucking go away.

We dragged ourselves out to go and meet some friends of DH for two hours on BH Monday - (outside, social distanced, we did tell them we were sick, but they wanted to go ahead) - and they moaned about their angelic neurotypical 2 year old girl.

I'm not suicidal, as that would be leaving DH and the kids, and I know I have a lot to be thankful for - we're not rich, but we're not at threat of losing the house, and I sometimes think wtf am I moaning about, but I'm just burnt to a crisp.

LeonoraFlorence · 03/06/2021 07:45

I feel the same. Just so tired. You’re not alone!

SinkGirl · 03/06/2021 22:47

FFS. Just typed a big comment and lost it.

@DanglySpider we have a lot in common. I know it’s so tough. Some days it just feels unbearably scary and overwhelming. I took the boys to the park today with the help of our new PA who’s fantastic, but it just left me feeling so sad. Seeing all the happy playing kids and their parents while I try and stop DTs jumping in the lake because they don’t know the difference between a lake and a swimming pool... so next week we are going swimming instead 😬 Plus all the staring judgy parents gawping at my kids babbling and oblivious to the kids around them. Have they never seen a disabled kid before, or seen reins before?! On the plus side, DT2 randomly went up to a lovely elderly gentleman sat on a bench to investigate and get some attention (luckily the man didn’t mind!) - I have no idea why but it was really sweet.

DT1 is suddenly becoming very opinionated - won’t let me put certain clothes on him, won’t walk in the direction we want him to walk etc. Hopefully it’s just the belated terrible twos and not new difficulties for him.

I hope everyone manages more sleep tonight. The heat doesn’t help!

@readingismycardio good luck with the TTC. I thought I would need fertility treatment and ended up conceiving twins immediately so you never know.

Huge unmumsnetty hugs to you all Flowers

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