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God I hate this time of year.

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OrmIrian · 17/01/2009 20:32

I am on citalopram for anxiety and until recently I was feeling great. But what with one thing and another I am ploughing my way through a great puddle of self-doubt and misery atm. I have a job that I don't feel confident at - I try but I always have the feeling that I'm short-changing my company. I've put on weight on - for the first time in a long time I feel fat and I hate it. I need to diet and the idea makes me miserable. DH and I are OK but I'm off sex and having to pretend to want it. I look at my lovely children and I don't deserve them. And I am so upset at all the threads about private schools atm. I don't totally approve of private schooling (I had a private education and I don't want my DCs to go through what I did in many ways) and all in all I am happy (more than happy often) with the state education my DCs have had so far. But I read all the threads on here about how even the 'good' schools aren't good enough and I wonder what I'm missing. Am I depriving my children? I go through life thinking that the world is a lovely place and most people are OK, and sometimes I wonder if I'm just deluded and in fact it's all a heap of shit and I'm a fool to beleive otherwise.

Awwww... shit

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LucyEllensmummy · 17/01/2009 21:38

Orm, just wanted to offer my support, i am on citalopram too - had a shit day today, i guess it happens. I like the idea of thinking about approaching spring, new year is always a time for introspection and im never sure it is such a good thing really.

OrmIrian · 17/01/2009 21:43

No it isn't LEM. Not at all. Life is for living not for thinking about. If you start to consider where you are, what's the purpose you might as well end it now.

When I'm 80 I will be happy with looking back on my life and saying 'all in all it was OK' (I hope) but not now. It's still a work in progress and I'm not 100% happy with it just yet.

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