Not sure if this is the right place to post this... glancing through the topics it seemed as if maybe this was a support place for parents who's children have mental illness. Anyway I just wanted to find some people like me who have kids and struggle daily with things like depression, self injury, or other mental illness. I'm curious as to how well you "hide it" from your kids or if you even try to at all. How you cope with trying to be a good parent on bad days, and feelings of failure or- the feeling I get often- "ruining" my children. Even though people say I'm a good mom I am a single mom with two kids and major depression and some days I just feel like I'm doing everything wrong.