Community Posts, Tips & Support on Mental Health

Honest, unfiltered, and in real-time: what women like you are talking about. Peanut group chats, support, and posts on Mental Health.

Went back to School For My Masters

I decided to go back to school. I came to an understanding that what makes me stress more? What will keep me depressed? Not being able to pay my bills or financially stable. So I did the one thing I thought I would or maybe should I say could picture myself doing. I went back to school to get my masters in mental he...

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Anyone struggling with loneliness and a sense of dread for the next day on an evening?

really struggle to be truly honest with close friends/family through fear of being judged so thought I’d post here. Does anyone else feel so lonely during motherhood? I have a few friends but most don’t have kids and the ones that do their kids are in full time nursery so i never see them anyway and have nobody to m...

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A 3am feed inspired poem…

Let me know if you can relate!

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Mental breakdown

I am currently not okay I don’t know what to do. I moved to a small town (nothing to do) away from home 8 hours away to be with my husband after our baby was born. I’m a SAHM I haven’t made any friends. I feel soooo incredibly lonely. I miss my family like crazy, my job, my friends just everything. I have mentioned ...

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Struggling to connect

I’m currently 36weeks +5 and really struggling to connect with the baby. I just don’t feel the bond that I expected to feel, I just feel like myself with something moving about in me. It’s causing me to feel a bit distressed about it, and I worry that this feeling might remain or get worse when baby arrives. I have...

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Having baby all to themselves

Does anyone else feel like they don’t want to share their baby. Like I’m even struggling to watch my partner with him It’s to the point where I won’t give him his dummy when visiting my mother in law (I don’t like her much anyway) so that baby will cry and she will give him back

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Depression sucks

I'm coming here as just need a talk to people who understand. Right now I'm suffering with depression (tablets don't work) I'm also audhd but I'm finding it hard with change and stuff going on in my life. I hate how i feel I'm also struggling with my youngest who is also audhd. I need friends but making them is hard...

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Do you see yourself as a people pleaser?

I’m officially a recovering people pleaser! Do you see yourself as a people pleaser? If anyone has any recovery tips or strategies for people pleasers please share! Here is some extra background: I saw myself as a people pleaser for years and it wasn't a "problem". However, it's become super clear to me after b...

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Going out again

When did everyone start letting there babies sleep over at grandmas etc? People keep asking me if I would like them to but I’m just not comfortable and don’t think I ever will be (it feels like that atm) but I do also want a good nights sleep and to get myself feeling like myself again and see my friends etc

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i think my mum doesnt like having my toddler at her house

as the title says, i dont think she likes it when we go round. everytime we do, were there around an hour max, and he is into everything as toddlers are and you can see her get more and more wound up because things may have to be moved like a candle to the next shelf up, or a laptop left on the couch. the last few t...

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Bit of a rant x

Hey, Does anyone else just feel so lonely? I feel like I have no one to talk to about anything, I don’t have any friends haha. Me and my partner have been struggling to get on lately due to my sickness and nausea still being bad and I’m not able to do a lot, we also struggle with money where I don’t work and with ...

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Feeling low

It's been a long time now, but the past few days have been very difficult. I'm just finding everything so overwhelming and I have never felt so alone. I lost my nan over a year ago to cancer and she was my person, the one I could talk to, the one who would always be there, going through motherhood without your perso...

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Bittersweet

These final days are such a bittersweet moment, I can’t wait to meet my baby and especially now things are getting so uncomfortable to the point I’m up in the night crying most nights due to some kind of pain but then I know I will miss my bump so much and all those moments it’s just me and baby when they’re moving ...

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Be honest. Is throwing things across room a mental health issue ??

It's just one of those days where I'm losing my shit with my 19mo son. I am sick lost my voice and he's extra difficult today like EXTRA difficult where I can't even think straight Is losing your shit and throwing something across the room, normal for what we do??? No one is harmed I almost feel ashamed but I liter...

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How to be happy

I’m struggling with coming to terms that I’m an adult. I miss being a kid. I miss how all of my family use to be together and now we’re not. How can you go from being around your siblings and your parents every day to barely seeing each other at all anymore. Now everyone feels distant and separated. The life I once...

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Leaving Relationship

Did you leave once your babies got older ? Wondering if anyone has left a relationship once the babies were older due to just being unhappy or just knowing that person isn’t your person despite trying to make it work? Right now I feel like I am sacrificing my happiness for a stable home for my baby but sometimes...

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Self-Care Isn’t Out of Reach: Use What You’ve Got!

For most busy moms I chat with, it’s easy for them to list what’s missing when it comes to self-care: - Not enough time - Limited funds - No supportive partner, family, or friends - No self-care activity ideas All of these are real challenges, but focusing on what you don’t have can make it hard to see the opp...

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Feeling lonely

Hi my baby is 5 months and I feel incredibly lonely. I have friends and family around but I can’t seem to shake off this feeling of loneliness. I don’t feel depressed but feel like the day comes and goes but I’m still in the same place. Does it get better?

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Struggling to be a mum and wife

Hello, I am finding it really difficult atm to be a mum. I feel like I'm not enjoying it. I am always tired. I don't have time to get myself ready anymore. I feel so low all of the time. I feel awful cause i often think i should just leave and let my son and his dad be happy without me. I feel they would be happier ...

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Why do I miss him?

My son’s dad treated me awful. Cheating, manipulative, narcissistic, pathological liar, etc. out 4 years together I did nothing but fight for a dead relationship and cry. After a year of being broken up, why do I still miss him? I don’t want to be with him anymore but sometimes I miss him.

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