What do you do when you are so burnt out, but have no solution to fix your burn out, and life is just too overwhelming. I’m a single parent to an audhd child, she is medicated and has plenty of support through ndis, but we don’t qualify for support work and our informal support system is very small. I don’t get a break, as I work as well. I’m so exhausted and burnt out, im yelling more at my daughter and my patience is so low. I’m struggling to manage everything, my house is always messy and even when I get the energy to clean it, it doesn’t stay clean for long, I’m constantly stressed as I live in a rental and worried about being kicked out because it’s messy or there are bits of slime in the carpet. I try so hard to keep on top of it all which just feeds into the burnout and all the other negative feelings I have. I’m currently on the wait list for an autism assessment as well, but with the cuts being made to ndis I don’t see that being beneficial either. I just don’t know where to turn or which next steps to make as my life just feels like an endless cycle, mixed with the constant aggression and being constantly sworn out by my child I just feel so low, and some days I completely feel like life just isn’t worth living when there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Get the Dept Child Services involved. They can offer programs, support and respite care for out of control kids.
They have heaps of services, they're not just all about taking kids away from bad homes.
I know there's a huge stigma attached to them & people are scared they're just going to walk in & take your kids, but that's honestly not the case.