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How to hang on

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TulaTilda · 27/08/2024 02:25

I've always suffered with my mental health, diagnosed with anxiety as a toddler and depression at 7yo. I've had a few major breakdowns, the last one I lost my children for a few days.
I'm taking my meds and having therapy and trying so hard to hang on to my sanity. The other day the cubes in my brain were wrong, I became really upset because of this, sometimes I know I can fly. I have so many weird thoughts and compulsions, I'm generally known as being weird but in an acceptable quirky way (no shoes, naming inanimate objects, speaking to bugs or flowers etc) I can't confide in anyone when I'm struggling because I will lose my children and I've worked so hard for them.
I'm OK at the moment so I want to ask, what can I do when I'm not OK to keep myself hanging on when I'm losing the plot?

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XChrome · 27/08/2024 02:43

You can confide in your therapist surely? You can't lose your kids because you are anxious, depressed and have weird thoughts. So don't stress about that.
There is a place called the Mental Health Forum where you can talk to others with similiar issues. Go to mentalhealthforum.net. It is UK based.

steffers34 · 27/08/2024 03:30

Im feeling like im struggking to hang on too. Ur not alone 💕

TulaTilda · 27/08/2024 11:31

My therapist reports back to social services and my mental health is being questioned as a risk to the children. As in if they don't have strict routines it's neglect, I self referred because i knew I needed help and its been a nightmare ever since

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