Tiredness sleep isn't fixing!!

[Mumhad]

I can go back to last summer when we moved house and had a lot of unexpected problems with the new house and very tiring school runs. I started feeling very stressed/tired/tearful. I put it down to life at the time but now the house is sorted & the kids are settled into a new school but I'm gradually feeling worse. Not every day but a lot of the time, this week has been really rubbish, last week wasn't too bad but the one before that was just the same as this w^^eek. I almost feel like the more sleep I get the worse I feel. I just can't motivate myself. I haven't worked since I had the kids who are 12, 7 & 5. My husband is self employed & I often think I should feel lucky I don't have to work & can concentrate on the kids. I drop them to school & get shopping most days then come home and just can't be bothered to do anything, I just want to sit and snack or would love to go to sleep. I'm eating more & more and am putting on more & more weight which I hate. I would love to diet but feel like I will never have the energy to be that organised again to plan healthy eating. I chat to mums af school but even avoid talking to staff at the supermarket and use self checkouts. I love my kids to bits and we still have fun but sometimes I have zero patience with them. Everything is an effort nowadays and I feel I hardly look forward to doing anything, just get satisfaction when its ticked off the to do list. Do I just need to get my act together or should I see the gp, this is what I keep asking myself now. I chose my title because I saw it on fb recently & thought yes that's me, I have an early night because I'm so tired & then feel even more lethargic the next day!

Go to the GP. It sounds like you could do with ruling out a vitamin deficiency or thyroid issue first off. And if that is not the cause they may refer you for treatment for depression.

It's definitely not normal and you don't have to put up with feeling this way

Thank you. I think sometimes when it comes to myself I'm maybe a bit too old school telling myself to get my act together and snap out of it.

Despite sleeping enough hours, yltbecquality of your sleep could be poor so you are not getting the deep sleep and REM that is required to feel refresh.

Episodes of stresses that goes on impa t on your adrenalin release which in turn impacts on your ability to switch off at night. It the requires retraining the brain and body to let go of everything and sleep as we should.

Saying all that, I would indeed get checked at your gp to rule out medical issues but what you describe, how some weeks are better, how you lack motivation and crave food are typical outcomes of poor sleep quality.

I've got that OP. GP tested my blood for various things. She's prescribed iron and vitamin D but I've got to see her too. Definitely worth getting checked.