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Decision time...

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Fading · 18/04/2010 15:48

So here I finally am with the opportunity to finally note down what occupies so much space not only in my head but in my heart; but where to start? DS has fallen asleep and DD is with her grandmother for a couple of hours so here goes...

Each day I question whether the way I behave, think, feel and look is normal and have come to no conclusion. All I know is that most of the time I seem to lose my internal battles and feel defeated and then begin to wonder how what my end will look like. I wonder whether it will be by my own hand (if I ever finally make up my mind) or by some freak accident or perhaps a long and painful demise...I know only this, that lately I frequently wish it were soon...

I know it sounds terrible, doesn't it? Especially as I look at these words myself. Although I love my children (or at least I think I do) I cannot help my mind from wandering in this direction...I have tried, so very hard and yet I always come back to this feeling of emptiness and pointlessness. I cannot give to others what I would so much like to and I cannot engage with my own children or provide them what they need be that on a financial or emotional level.
It would appear that all round I am a significant disappoint and cause so much trouble to all. My parents' don't understand and truthfully, I feel, never have understood me; perhaps the same is true of my siblings? My poor husband looks worse each day as though his heart is about fail him most likely from stress and coming home to me and an abode in disarray and screaming babies.

I don't want to go to a doctor...so perhaps it's time to call it a day? I have no one to confide in about this.

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Fading · 18/04/2010 19:05

sorry I meant LoveMyGirls

Why not the doctor?
I don't want to take any meds. Eminent docs now think that this is not the answer. I am also not in my area so I can't just pop down the road. Getting out at the best of times can be difficult...
I also don't want anything to be put on my file.

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willsurvivethis · 18/04/2010 19:42

Fading saying that you don't want to go to the docs or take meds (and who are these eminent doctors? )and then saying you are thinking of suicide is a bit like not wanting to have a grown toenail treated so amputating your leg instead -

drastic and unnecessary in equal measures.

despite what these eminent doctors say anti depressants may well give you the strength to start climbing out with the help of talking therapy or what else you need.

topsi · 18/04/2010 19:55

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topsi · 18/04/2010 19:58

sorry was having problems with posting.
I think you should take your post from earlier seriously, you sounded pretty upset.
Just talking with a professional won't do any harm and it doesn't mean you have to end up on tablets.

LittleMarshmallow · 18/04/2010 20:28

Fading - I have had depression for a long long time maybe around 10 years. I was afraid of taking drugs or talking to a doctor so I bottled it all up. Then last year I had a series of events which basically used up the last of my coping reserves and I had to admit to my GP that I was not coping, that took a lot of strength but when I looked at ds I forced myself to do it because he deserved a better mum than I could be at that point. I now am taking anti-depressants and yes it is on my medical file, but the relief from finally admitting to someone that life wasnt fine and that I wasn't coping has been huge.

It is not terrible to feel how you are, depression is an illness and not something you should be scared off.

LoveMyGirls · 18/04/2010 21:22

Sounds like you are depressed about your circumstances but they won't stay like this forever, there are a few things you have mentioned that would be hard for anyone to deal with but everything put together is unmanageable right now such as..

living with parents
no privacy
no time alone with your children or DH or indeed on your own at all which would drive anyone absolutly mad!
stress of building work
your mothers attitude.

It really is no wonder you feel so low, honestly this will not last forever, you may not want this on your medical file but it's really not that big a deal, when I got back on my feet, met a lovely bloke, moved area etc I was 22 and I wanted to become a childminder and was very worried my PND, attempted OD from my past would go against me, it didn't, I did go for an interview, they also interviewed my mum to collaborate my side of the story and they said it wasn't an issue because it was clear it was circumstantional depression.

You need to get help to make things better for now, I was on pro-zac for around 6 months and honestly I needed it to help me, it was like a dark fog was being lifted enabling me to see the problems I had a lot more clearly and then I was able to tackle issues one at a time and rebuild my life, it's worth seeing a gp to see if he can help you before you get to the point I was at, it's the only thing I regret ever in my life, I wish to god I had asked for help instead of reaching for the bottle of tablets but I didn't realise how bad things were until after that incident, the day after and infact weeks after I couldn't believe how selfish I had been, if I had succeeded in taking my life, my dd deserved for me to get help and change my life to give her the most amazing life she has been able to have because I survived and your children deserve that too!

Please go and see your GP, tell your husband you need him to look after the children for a morning while you go.

The very fact you posted today means you are NOT A CRAP MUM you love your children and you deserve to be happy. Your mum should not have said those things to you.

Please keep posting and do not worry about waffling on!!

LittleMarshmallow · 19/04/2010 14:37

How are you today Fading?

topsi · 19/04/2010 20:17

How are things?

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