Community Posts, Tips & Support on Mental Health

How did you cope with the pending arrival of your 2nd+ born? I am so so excited to meet our newest family member next week but my god the tears I have shed this last week every time I think about it no longer being me and our first. I never went back to work so for over a year it’s just been us every day and as aw...

I think I’m really going crazy .. lol well ever since I got pregnant I lost all my friends so I been pretty lonely my whole pregnancy ( plus being a single mom) fast forward I’m starting to get used to being a mom but it lowkey depressing that all I am is a mom🥺 I wish I had friends to talk to or even send lil…

It’s all in the eyes, babe. I remember looking in the mirror and feeling like I wasn’t living up to my full potential. I just knew there was more for me. Stuck in my own head, overthinking every decision, wondering if I’d ever actually feel alive. That version of me? She had dreams, but she was hiding from her ...

Why is it that I genuinely find it so embarrasing that I’m a single mum. I never look at other single mums and think “ha ha how embarrassing” but yet I’m just so embarrassed and SO ashamed that I am one. Anyone else relate? And did anyone else feel this way once upon a time and get over it? I don’t even care to b...

I hate that I get this sudden burst of emotions like I’m so happy to be with this man and I want to marry him but only when he’s not around! But then when he’s around it’s like I don’t want to be bothered by him but at the same time I do want to be bothered by him, and then when he’s around me I feel annoyed by his ...

It’s ok to laugh

The last time Trump was president, as a black woman, I felt like I had to go the extra mile to be accepted by Americans. I’m scared that I have to do that again for another four years

I’m not mad or anything. I just want to sit at home while my babies sleep, husband go somewhere with a friend, watch a movie in the dark with some popcorn and chocolate, and no one touch me. No one is allowed to touch me all night.

I’m so hurt. I don’t want to live anymore , be a mom , I can’t afford to wait until things get better. I feel like they won’t. No one loves me like they say they do. Not even my own parent. She said so many means things to me about me. That’s not love. I feel so unimportant, I feel stuck, I feel so ugly. 😢

Hope this doesn’t come across as rude, but a friendly reminder to others too

Mummas, how are you coping when it's all a little too much? I thought I'd be used to the lack of sleep and constantly being switched on to mum mode and caring for baby by now but some days/hours/minutes are bloody hard and I feel like I just need to sit in a silent dark room 😂 Tips for getting back into the swing…

since having my daughter i pretty much lost all of my friends after they found out i was pregnant. whether they picked a fight or just straight up started ignoring me. anyone else have this experience? ive really been struggling with emptiness/loneliness because of it. i wanted them with me in this part of my life.

Seem angry and whingey? I feel like my LB is so unhappy all the time at the minute, or at least for most of the day. It’s beginning to really take its toll on my mental health as I’m not sure what to do. Is this a leap?

Just wondering if there is anyone in the same boat and if its a post partum thing I just feel so unattractive atm. My body is bigger than i have ever been, breastfeeding has me at the same weight when i gave birth, none of my pre pregnancy clothes fit me and i hate how all new clothes i try look on me, when i put m...

Sorry this is just so all over the place but I feel so lost. I don’t think I really realised how isolating having a baby would be. like being pregnant was so hard because I’m a young mum-17 when I found out, 18 now- and I was so social, out a lot seeing friends or getting upto whatever, I was also drinking a lot &...

My husband is going to go hunting today and I’m pretty anxious about being home with my 18 days old. I’m afraid to feel so lonely.

I’m a single mum of two beautiful children, I only have one close friend and the other friend I use to have has just all of a sudden started to ignore me without any explanation. I have had my second child three weeks ago and I haven’t gotten any visits by anyone except my neighbour and family. My friend was suppose...

I just feel like I’m really struggling as a mum at the moment . My lo is nearly 5 months and sleeping is all over the place, I’m not going to bed until 3am and then today up again at 8, my lo only naps on me in the day I just have no space no time to myself the dad does nothing barely anything to help I feel lonely...

I wish I had someone that I can talk to. I feel so alone in this world. Nobody but God and my kids is all I have. I wish I had ginuene people around me that really love and understand me. That can be there to give me that support 😔😢

My hearts hurting. I had a close friend since I was 12 and we grew up together. She’s now pregnant as well as I am and I would’ve thought we would’ve been on this journey together and it just seems like she doesn’t even want me in her life anymore. I feel like I have no one. I just want true valuable friends. I feel...