[Can't Stop Crying]

I am so overwhelmed by life...I feel strong for a day or 2 and then it all drains out of me. Dealing with a depressed teen-ager and school officials who just don't get it and mental health professionals who say he doesn't qualify, an eleven year old who needs his mom who is stretched to thin, all this stupid crap from the past that has re-surfaced and is haunting me, a husband who doesn't understand or offer support with the kids, fighting with work about short-term disability, chronic insomnia...

Something has gotta give, I've got nothing left

I guess I just needed to vent...I feel like I'm battling this all alone and I'm worn out!

please continue to do your best and let the rest go. please don't be too hard on yourself. i hope that venting helped. please continue to vent; it's sometimes a good coping mechanism. hang in there; you efforts are well intentioned and show good character. all the best to you

[madisgram]

same here, CSC. do the best you can and let it rest. i'd feel overwhelmed as you based on what you posted. i forget, do you see a T? i believe your collaboration would help you sift thru this than your trying to do it alone. course we are always here to listen cuz we care about YOU
and feel free to vent, rant, whatever helps you even if only for a minute/relief. we are here to listen and offer our support.

[missbelle]

I can so relate......that time has passed for me but I remember very well me being a single mom with not enough money and a bi-polar daughter that needed constant care and hospitalizations.......

You just need some time for yourself but that is easir said then done.Can you get away for a day to a quiet place to regroup?

Keep posting I totally understand and remember so very well!!!!

[Can't Stop Crying]

I feel like I'm stuck in this cycle...everyday brings the same thing. I can never be what everyone needs from me, it's impossible. It makes me feel hopeless.

[Can't Stop Crying]

Originally Posted by madisgram

i forget, do you see a T?

Yes, I have a T. It feels like there is not enough of him to pull me through..too many issues, sessions too short. I'm trying so hard to put the past to rest that a lot of this other stuff just piles up! If I could just feel strong again I think I would be able to cope with my life now...dealing with the past takes all my strength, but the past keeps dragging me down. Vicious circle...I don't know what issue to deal with because there are too many....Splinters of me pulled in every direction, the loudest voice wins.

[silentandscared]

Originally Posted by Can't Stop Crying

Yes, I have a T. It feels like there is not enough of him to pull me through..too many issues, sessions too short. I'm trying so hard to put the past to rest that a lot of this other stuff just piles up! If I could just feel strong again I think I would be able to cope with my life now...dealing with the past takes all my strength, but the past keeps dragging me down. Vicious circle...I don't know what issue to deal with because there are too many....Splinters of me pulled in every direction, the loudest voice wins.

(((((((((((cantstopcrying)))))))))))))))))
Many many times l feel that l have felt what you describe about so many different things all demanding my time and work. Exhausted and ready to give up............feeling that there is nothing left to give because it has already been given over and over. I came to a point that l really didnt know who l was any more or how l was supposed to 'act'. Every day can seem the same looking and addressing the same things and at the end of it all still being in exactly the same place as when l started only more drained, exhausted and frustrated, feeling as though another piece of me had been lost forever.

I wish l had all the words of wisdom to give you in how to get free from this but i'm sorry l dont.................but please know that l understand ....l hear your voice screaming out for something anything just to give a little to give you some hope to carry on with the next day. Venting out what is in our hearts and minds is a good way to get some of it out in the hope that tomorrow there will be a little room to do it all over again. Keep venting..............letting it out here..................we all care and know some if not all of those feeling /emotions that you describe. Sounds to me as though you are doing an excellent job through it all................after all there is only so many pieces that a heart and mind can be broken into.

Try to take care of you too...............l know an impossible thought but you are doing an amazing job fighting for your family................always remember that. As for therapy for me it just seemed that l had to go with whatever was at the forefront at that particular moment which could have been just about anything. Take care of you, stay safe and be assured that you are doing everything in your power to help all that need it.

sending you safe and calming hugs(if ok)

Sas xx

[nannypat]

SO overwhelmed, inside and out. I wish there was something I could do to help relieve your struggles. I've been there with the kids, with myself. All I could do and still do is put one foot in front of the other day after day.You offer such great support to everyone here, I wish I could offer you more. I keep you in my thoughts.

[iluvjjeff]

I know how you feel. I too am overwhelmed and depressed by life. It seemslike you get a little hope one day and try to be positive and then the next day you are knocked back down. It makes you feel like giving up but in my case I cant because I have four kids dependening on me (which actually makes it worse) How do you maintain hope and stay positive for them? For three years our family has sturggle through this recession and we are at the end of our rope. It was tough enough before...now it feels impossible.

I guess the only thing i can offer you is that the onely ting that is for sure is change and hopefully things will eventually change for the better. In the mean time i guess we just hold on as tight as we can and pray for someone to come allong to offer support and encouragement.

[gettingthru]

I saw your post and totally relate. Right now I cry at the drop of a hat, even reading other peoples' posts that echo how i feel. My mom's getting dementia, both my parents are in their 80s, I now only have my sweet daughters half the time because of shared parenting with a very hostile ex-husband, I moved recently, and other stressors pile up and make me feel like a mess. The thing is, so many of us (like moms and children of the elderly, for example) DO have a lot of reasons to feel like this. I'm starting therapy & treatment, and I just try hard to get through each day, each week, and hope that the worst of the emotional storm passes.

[gettingthru]

I can completely relate to being overwhelmed by life and crying off and on all the time. So many things set it off. I'm getting treatment right now, since January, but I start tearing up and get a lump in my throat when talking with others. The best I can do is to get through each day, do the best I can, and hope that the storm passes over. I'm glad there are people on here who want to support each other.