Community Posts, Tips & Support on Mental Health

Do any of you busy family life mums sometimes envy those that live a solo simple life. Sometimes I just picture some random who lives in a nice little one bed flat, they have their nice little job that they enjoy, just getting along living life. They go to work come home, get a take away put their feet up with a gla...

Incognito because it's so stigmatized. I miss working. Child care has a lot of rewarding moments but overall I feel bored. I had a part time project a couple weeks ago, it didn't take a lot of time but it's the most refreshed I felt in such a long time.

Is it just me or can the days be really long ? I hear so many people love their days off with their little ones but I find them exhausting. I am not a crafts person and just find I have good intentions but really struggle. I feel I should be enjoying it a lot more. It’s worrying me as want a sibling for lo but I jus...

What are some mantras or things that you say to yourself to make you feel better when you have an episode of PPD/PPA (uncontrollable negative thoughts, suicidal thought, mom guilt, can’t do self-care, don’t want your baby or partner, hard on myself, hopeless, helpless, depressed, anxious, etc.)? I ask because I hav...

How often do you tell your husband/partner you appreciate them and all that they do?? I’m not talking all the daily stuff, I mean telling them straight up ‘I appreciate everything you do’

I knew mat leave was lonely because people have told me in the past. The way the dynamic is with me and my partner at the minute I don’t always get a chance to go to groups and when I do I feel like I’m masking so much it makes me so uncomfortable. It has been a really humbling experience to see how many of my “frie...

I’ll go first: I think I push people away unintentionally. I’ve had 2 friends tell me they don’t know if they’re allowed to text me or not. & that made me self reflect on how I show up in relationships. I didn’t notice I was pushing ppl away

Who came up with the idea that it’s okay to work 40+ hours a week!? And why? This shit consumes me. I have no time for anything besides work. No wonder everyone around me is angry and/or depressed. Don’t let you have kids and a family either cause then that shit gets 100x harder. Then you really don’t have no time f...

I am not going to hurt myself. I just feel so done with everything. I have body aches. My stomach is uncomfortable. I am sick of my job but it pays so it sustains me and my family’s life. My husband doesn’t even talk to me. The only thing that brings me joy is my kids. I am just living for the Lord/God/Jesus. I can’...

I’m 32 weeks and feeling so isolated. I’m worried my feelings of isolation are a pre-cursor to PPD/PPA. Anyone else feeling isolated in their pregnancy or experiencing perinatal mood disorder symptoms?

It’s not a matter of taking a few minutes to myself everyday or hiring someone for a few hours. It’s not enough. I’m so burnt out. Getting sometime away from my kids just highlights how much I just want to run away. My SIL watched my kids on Saturday and I got lunch with my husband. We has 90 minutes of peace. It wa...

Anyone feel like they are just failing at everything? I’ve been having a hard time lately. I have a 10,6 and 9 month old. My two oldest seem to just be giving me such a hard time. I feel like laundry is just piling up every night I clean to only clean more in the morning. I just feel so alone in feeling this way.

I’m drowning in debt with some at the stage of debt collection, I’ve really had enough and I’m struggling to stay positive I’m so depressed and I feel like there’s no way out with no support

Is anyone starting to feel particularly forgetful? Sometimes I think I can’t remember particularly things until it comes back to me. Anyone else had this ?

Lately, I’ve been struggling with a deep sense of longing for love and connection, especially since I never felt that love from my parents. I’ve always felt like the black sheep of the family, and even though I try to be kind and open with people, it’s like no one is really interested in getting to know me. I know I...

Anyone else struggling with loneliness in pregnancy? I realise my only hobby was going out for drinks which obviously I can’t do, and I’m just too tired to go out all day and drink lemonade! My husband is still carrying on his social life so I have a lot of evenings after work and the weekends where I’m just on my o...

How/when do you manage getting any quality time with your SO? We don’t have any friends or family nearby, most of them live abroad, my husband’s family comes over every couple of months but that’s the only time we ever get to be a couple again without having to look after our LO. How are others making time for each...

Anyone else feel like everyone talks about how great this stage is but is actually finding it really hard? I feel like a bad mum when telling people that I’m struggling at the moment as I know compared to newborn days it is a lot easier it’s just a different kind of hard?

Since becoming a mum, I have become absolutely invisible. I no longer matter or exist even. When people come to my house, they have said they only come for baby. If I'm asked a question - which is rare -, they don't listen to the answer or seem very disinterested. Yesterday, I went to my partners family's gathering...

Away for my birthday celebrations but pregnant so can’t drink , go clubbing and feel like life has changed. Glad to be pregnant but feel like crap watching my friends all enjoy themselves.