Community Posts, Tips & Support on Mental Health

I got through this with my first after about a year. Now I have a newborn and toddler at home, mornings are usually good but I feel so lonely, sad, and weirdly homesick after lunch and just wait for my husband to get home. Then we do dinner and bedtime and get through the night just to do it all again 😅 I know it’s…

So I think I have a mild version of social anxiety.. once I make plans I start to dread them and honestly think about it with dread as each day gets closer…what I’m Gonna wear, what do I do with the kids? If I’m Leaving the kids, how much do I have to pump? If I’m taking the kids, are they gonna behave or wild out l...

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Is this just me or has anyone gone through this or going through something similar? So for context I’m 22 years old and when I fell pregnant with my daughter at 17 all my mates just disappeared for my whole pregnancy, then when I gave birth to my daughter they appeared again. They stuck around for a month then fuck...

I hate my life....I hate my job...nnjaee where I live...I just got paid and I have £240 left.i still gave few payments to come out.What is the point???and the thought of 20 more years of struggling working and struggling on retirement! I mean what is the point???

Anyone else just feel so alone and defeated at night times. My baby is 11months old and still wakes at night. Me and my ex broke up just over a month ago and I just feel like I’ve hit a wall. Just want to know other people feel the same xx

I read to escape reality and to feel a sense of accomplishment. Being a mom, I should already feel accomplishment but I always strive to do above and beyond for my kids and it’s impossible so I never felt any satisfaction with being a mom. I don’t have much friends. They have their own shit to roll in you know? I tr...

Is it weird that I miss being in hospital? I had an emergency c section with my baby girl and had to stay in hospital for 5 days. I thought I’d be relieved to be home, it’s been 3 days and I feel so overwhelmed. My husband has a big family and his siblings and mum want to see the baby daily. My battery is drained, m...

Anyone else finding it all incredibly boring? I feel awful saying it and I know I might divide the crowd here but so far as well as finding it all really hard/sleep deprived/relationship with partner changing etc. that it’s all really boring?? I have a two week old and feel like I just get up, feed, change, eat, fee...

It's been more than a month now and I must say as a first time mom, I've been struggling alot in the past few weeks with the baby on different things - baby napping on me all the time, crying loads at night etc. So my life has been on standstill for awhile and now i am starting to feel really isolated and lonely. I'...

Why do I start project that I like never finish 😂 or at least take me a lot longer than needed.

Sick and tired of feeling alone all the time been suffering a lot lately with loneliness feeling for to pop up and chat

Does anyone else feel like they just don't fit in? I'm nearly 30, my mum abandoned me when I was a teen. I never fit in at school I've never fit in at any baby/ toddler classes I don't fit in with the school mums My husbands family don't consider me as family I haven't got any close friends I constantly question mys...

I'm 14 weeks and my husband has decided he wants a divorce. I can't be the only one who has faced this during a pregnancy. Any others out there?

Does anyone else's partner work shifts? I absolutely dread when he's on late shifts and having to deal with evenings alone, attempting to make dinner, and trying to put our baby to bed alone is hard! I also find them really lonely and just don't know what to do and find myself just watching the clock until it's time...

Does anyone feel like they are always solo parenting even when they r on a relationship with the father of their kid? I feel like I’m constantly doing everything and yet not being valued. I’m exhausted 😩

It’s so different for us woman sometimes. I literally feel like I’ve been run over by a bus, whilst my other half has been to meet at least one friend. Been to a football match and just is living his best dad life. Apart from the obvious one that they haven’t given birth, I just don’t get how they can step out of t...

Hey mommy’s I just had a baby a month ago I be bored I’m young still so I still be liking company and to have fun you know it’s moms out there struggling and be bored to and if you want a new friend you can always depend to be there i definitely will get out the house or either you can come to me only thing is I’m a...

I need help I love my partner to bits but I can’t stand him at the moment I just feel so distant from him at the moment and struggling because I don’t know what to do I just seeing if anyone has gone through this.

I have an almost 3 yo and a 1 mo baby and I feel like I’m drowning. I don’t have family nearby and my friends are all at least 30 min away and they’re busy moms too. If you have more than 1 kid, when did things start feeling manageable? It’s so hard keeping the toddler entertained/fed/happy, the baby won’t nap unl...