I'm a stressed out Mumma.
I constantly feel stressed and tired and over it all. I can't handle my kids when hubby is at work as he is gone before they wake and home right on bed time. I yell at the kids over the small things and feel like I'm always yelling at them. I know I need to stop yelling and getting irritable but I keep doing it. I feel like they push my buttons and each other's buttons or cry and sook all the time. I know that it could be depression as it runs in the family but what if it's not or what do I do next to overcome it?
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Firstly get yourself off to the GP to be assessed. Secondly make sure you are getting YOU time. So if that means putting the kids in crèche so you can work out, or putting them in occasional care so you can get a massage/participate in a hobby/ sit and watch tv in peace and quiet DO IT. Also make sure your getting enough sleep, challenging I know but if that means going to bed earlier and leaving some house work DO IT. Find something you and the kids enjoy doing play group/play cafe/swimming lessons/whatever and do that. By making small changes so you feel happier about life and more positive will change things.
Firstly talk to your gp. And as suggested above get a good nights sleep and have you time. Exersize is also good. And my new favourite thing (actually I have 2) positive post-its every day I write one thing I am grateful for (today was having the chance to declutter and bring in some more organisation, one has been the sunshine to help my flowers grow) and put it on my mirror for the next morning, it reminds me something good is going to happen and that being grouchy isn't going to help me see it, after that it gets stuck into my book. I've been doing it for 2 weeks now and it's already somehow made an impact. My second thing is bringing in some calm, I have time outs to calm down just like the kids we have a zen garden that we go in and draw patterns in when needed, it has surprisingly helped me and my kids.