Community Posts, Tips & Support on Mental Health

We have decided to just have one baby for lots of different reasons and it is absolutely right for us to not have any more but I can't help feeling guilty. I worry he will be lonely. When I see him playing on his own I feel bad. He is such a happy boy and very sociable. He goes to nursery 4 mornings a week and we ar...

I have no idea why God gave me children knowing how much i enjoy being alone. i mean yeah i dip and dab with their father time to time. we’re in a committed relationship but he knows i like my space…but these kids are always around me and always noisy. what was so wrong with me being alone?? i didn’t want to party o...

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 find it hard being a stay at home mum. I’m feeling really alone lately, when my sons at nursery I’m just at home , now it’s getting darker at night as well, I hate it. I’m worried I’m getting desperate because of lack of friends or interaction with anyone.

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

As the title says, has anyone had people make remarks like this, since announcing your expecting? My partner and I have done a lot of travelling over the last 2 years. We like nice things as we work very hard, and treat ourselves from time to time whilst being sensible, of course. Obviously that’ll change due to im...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...