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Really struggling to keep going

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HadEnoughDepleted · 24/09/2023 10:08

Mixture of stress, burnout from looking after 5 kids mostly alone, exhaustion from not enough sleep, trying not to lean on alcohol to feel better (tends to make me feel worse at the moment)

I go between sadness, anger and nothingness.
My youngest is 2 and is definitely picking up on it. He's more emotional, clingy, demanding and I can't cope with it, even though I know it's my fault.

I'm at a point where I believe everyone would just be better off without me, I'm not a good mother right now.
It's rocky between me n my partner, he doesn't support me, calls me selfish for having these thoughts.

I walked my 2 year old to the shop earlier, he ppint blank refuses his pram, if I force him into it he just continually climbs out. But then refuses to walk and throws himself to the floor on the roads.
I stopped in the street overwhelmed and just wanted to jump in front of a car.

I'm definitely not emotionally available for anyone, I'm fighting the urge to run away.

I don't know what to do, I don't want medication, I have a history of bad depression and self harm. Over the last decade I've been okay (with a few blips) but these past 6 months I've gone downhill.

I want to feel okay again, but right now it feels hopeless

OP posts:
Dawn1331 · 24/09/2023 10:25

@HadEnoughDepleted I know you don't want medication but it's likely to be the very thing that will help you.
As for your partner - he is being selfish not plugging into how you are feeling. Being selfish would be laying in bed watching movies, eating pizza and enjoying it and not caring - you are suffering its not enjoyable x

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