I have anxiety and have suffered from mild depression for many years now. I only managed to seek professional help over the past year since becoming a mum.
Anyway, I have not been taking medication and had "talk therapy" that really only pointed out that the only person they think can help me is myself. I am on a waiting list for CBT but have no idea how long this will take. Due to lack of resourcing on NHS I had my therapy appts 2-3 months apart so it was useful but infrequent.
Sorry to waffle on but I really feel like life is zipping past. LO is 2 1/2 now and I am SAHM. I am just realising that I seem to live in my own little bubble in a foggy head and some days go past and I don't really know what we have done. It's not that we don't do anything - we do. Lots. I just get to the end of the week and it is all a hazy blur. I feel like I live inside my head all the time and come out of the fogginess occasionally and actually take in my surroundings and think "Right - this is REAL now" so I will look at LO having his nap and try to live in the moment but then a few minutes later I am back in the foggy dazey head again.
Does any of this make any sense at all? I can't explain it in RL to anyone. GP and therapist didn't really seem to get what I meant and just thought it would pass with the symptoms of anxiety but it hasn't.
Thanks for ANY responses. I really appreciate it.