It's hard having your routines disrupted so much, and feeling responsible for entertaining or maintaining conversation with somebody for extended periods.

I can't tell you how much sometimes I have craved just to have a few hours by myself. I want the TV off, and I don't want to talk to anybody. That was what really drove me nuts, I think when I was a stay-at-home-mom. I felt like I was suffocating because I never had even a few minutes with just me by myself and nobody around that I had to talk to or be responsible for. It felt like the weight of each minute built up until it was too much and I collapsed. Now on my day off I have a few hours alone in the house, and I try to arrange that day so that I don't have to go anywhere. Usually I have to use it for homework, but it still helps. I also lock myself in the bathroom for an hour or so and take a bubble bath or read. It's a necessity.