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Am I having a breakdown?

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Idontdeservethem · 16/01/2012 13:54

Name changer. Have felt odd for weeks, felt like I was watching Christmas and new year from the outside. Didn't enjoy either. Put it down to be pre menstrual that week. It hasn't got better. My temper is terrible. I picked a fight with DH on the way to the supermarket yesterday with the dcs in the car and I actually got out of the car and started to walk home. I shocked myself with my behaviour. Afterwards I just felt flat and sad. Couldn't sleep last night. Today I am just crying and couldn't get out of bed. DH made me get up. I have been crying over lots of things that happened years ago, things I don't even think about anymore. I've sobbed today over my lovely grandma who died 9 years ago. I can't cope. I am tired. I am sad. I feel guilty because DH is so good and kind and I'm a crap wife and a crap mum. I must have frightened my boys yesterday and they'll remember that forever. I won't have sex. I fat and I always look scruffy. I can't stop eying and I just want to go back to bed but I can't let DH down more than I already am. He has made me an appointment with the doctor for tomorrow. I am a failure. Please someone help me.

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Fitzroy · 25/03/2012 16:23

Not so good today, getting panic attacks.....

ThePinkPussycat · 02/04/2012 10:57

Hello everyone...I say HELLOOO...

It's gone all quiet, how are you all? Ikea, fitz, oranges and all?

You are all in my thoughts.
I have been doing very little, have been fending off exhaustion from the stress of the last 6 months. Having to go back to bed a lot. Luckily I can do this, as kids grown and not working. Hopefully things are nearing resolution though...

Fitzroy · 03/04/2012 15:58

Hi PPC, my workplace are annoying me at the moment, between losing my sick line, then not answering any emails or phone calls, I am stressed out being off sick, if you know what I mean. Now I have to do a written submission for them to decide whether I am sick or not. I only wish I was well enough to go back..... and get them off my back....

ThePinkPussycat · 03/04/2012 19:54

Hi fitz, when I was signed off with work-related stress for 4 weeks, just as I was starting to recover after 2 weeks, work rang me to find out when I could go in to be assessed after the 4 weeks - how would I know, I hadn't had the recommended time yet! In fact, it put me in such a state I went back to bed for 2 days.

A written submission, that's weird.

Fitzroy · 19/04/2012 19:28

Yes PPC a written submission, I wrote it all down and emailed it to them, and now my consultant has said if I have any trouble with my work, he will write a report to them, drs and medical people are sick and tired of trying to defend people that are genuinely ill...

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