http://notesfromhome.com/2006/08/13/maternal-depression-irritability-and-guilt/ motherhood in real-time Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:07:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://notesfromhome.com/2006/08/13/maternal-depression-irritability-and-guilt/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Kim Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:54:35 +0000 http://mostleast.com/?p=255#comment-507 You could wipe your name off that blog and stick mine to it, thats how close it is to exactly how I feel. I don't think drugs are the answer necessarily, at least not the first answer. I just got rid of my 2 cats because I realized I was taking out my stresses on them; always yelling at them and not giving them any positive attention. It helps to not have them around and I know they're in a better home, but of course I feel guilty about giving them the boot. I am my own worst enemy- I do something productive or positive and find twenty flaws in my actions to bring me back to feeling bad. I often feel like I'll never get everything done and that I'm clueless as to what I'm doing, but taking the time to just Breathe! or vent to my sister (mother of 4) pulls me back just long enough to see that everything will be okay. And then my 2 year old puts a kernel of corn in her ear...motherhood seems to be a funny cycle like that, and something you will fondly look back on with a grin when your grown kids are calling you on the phone screaming for help with your grandchildren. So until then, you get on the phone and scream for help, cause if it's a mom you're calling, they will grin and happily assist cause they do understand. You could wipe your name off that blog and stick mine to it, thats how close it is to exactly how I feel. I don’t think drugs are the answer necessarily, at least not the first answer. I just got rid of my 2 cats because I realized I was taking out my stresses on them; always yelling at them and not giving them any positive attention. It helps to not have them around and I know they’re in a better home, but of course I feel guilty about giving them the boot. I am my own worst enemy- I do something productive or positive and find twenty flaws in my actions to bring me back to feeling bad. I often feel like I’ll never get everything done and that I’m clueless as to what I’m doing, but taking the time to just Breathe! or vent to my sister (mother of 4) pulls me back just long enough to see that everything will be okay. And then my 2 year old puts a kernel of corn in her ear…motherhood seems to be a funny cycle like that, and something you will fondly look back on with a grin when your grown kids are calling you on the phone screaming for help with your grandchildren.
So until then, you get on the phone and scream for help, cause if it’s a mom you’re calling, they will grin and happily assist cause they do understand.

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