Community Posts, Tips & Support on Mental Health

Hey! I have two little ones - my eldest will be 3 in December and my little one is 1 this month! I’ve noticed my circle getting smaller and smaller since I had kids and I genuinely feel very lonely a lot of the time. I don’t do well on my own and really get into my head but I’m also a little bit shy and socially...

Yall… I’m really struggling… I’m not enjoying being a mom. I feel terrible saying this but I need to say it, I am not enjoying life. I understand we’re supposed to go through some difficult times, our kids will stress us out, and there will be some frustrating days… But I feel like it’s every day. I feel like the mo...

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...

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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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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...