Thanks Manic Trance & Lacerta. I absolutely hate going to pieces in front of my kids. My daughter was upset watching me, and my son (who's younger) was upset because I got mad at him. Lacerta, I did the same thing when I got past the initial anger/overwhelmed state...I figured that he probably wasted less than $1 of TP, so was able to let go of that part. Poor boy, though - he didn't deserve the reaction he got from me.

I have some neighbors across the street. I considered calling her last night in case it got worse and I felt like I needed to go to the hospital or something. But they have 5 kids, and it was a school night...really didn't want to do that if at all possible.

As for regular breaks, I think I need to start figuring that out better. I work 6 hrs/day, and that's the entire time I'm not with my kids while they're at school. My husband gets up with them every morning he's here (if he's not traveling) and does breakfast & lunches. I do the driving to/from school & all the afterschool activities. From about May until the end of October or so, he gets 2 days off every other week. Unfortunately, they're in the middle of the week when I'm working anyway, so I get the kids full time every weekend...right now, that's a lot for me.

Sounds like you both have kids, so you may relate to how awful it feels as a mom to not have the energy to care for your kids the way they deserve and you want. I'm working on this with my T, but sometimes I just don't know what I'm going to do. It's so unfair to the rest of my family that I'm like this! Anyway, I'll be talking to my T about last night's episode and getting some feedback from her on it as well. This sucks.