Not coping. Depression because of children?

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DH is currently downstairs with them but I know I’m going to have to go down in a bit and I just … can’t.

I honestly feel how I’ve felt going to work before when I just haven’t been able to face it. I feel sick, shaky, just doing anything to put it off.

Obviously though it isn’t like a job you can ring in sick for (if only) WTF am I going to do?

You’re burnt out. It’s a nervous system response. I’ve had the same experience before feeling physically sick at the thought of needing to collect DS from my ex husband and similarly feeling trapped by the thought of having to be in a car with him.

Luckily you do have a DH. So I’d think about how you need him to step in while you sort this out. Stay in your room today if you need to, but start to think about how you can make changes. Therapy if you can afford it.

It isn’t ’because’ of my children in the sense that I’m saying they are to blame exactly. But if I didn’t have children I’d just go downstairs. So it kind of is because of my children.

I can’t afford therapy. I’m struggling to get through the months as it is.