My daughter has entered the terrible twos and I am doing my best just to keep up. When it gets really bad I am able to shut myself down and just focus on her but eventually I have to pay the piper. By the end of the day I am not only tired but also so disconnected from my own emotions that I cannot even tell what I am feeling or why.
If I look back at the day I can see that I have engaged in bad coping mechanisms (not eating, negative thinking) but I cannot connect that to a reason.

So my question is this. For you parents, how do you balance your illness with taking care of your children? What balance have you been able to achieve ? What compromises have you had to make?

I want to shelter her from my illness as much as humanly possible but I know that may not always be an option. I need to be healthy so she can be healthy. I just don't know how to get there.