For anybody struggling ❤

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Squittel said:
My best friend has alcohol issues and it’s hard. For her mainly, but also for me. She was drinking last night and was messaging me about wanting to harm herself. Saying she didn’t want to be here anymore and she wished she could just disappear and saying she felt suicidal. I asked if she wanted to call, she said no. I then messaged her mum because I was worried.

I think she’s probably annoyed with me. But I don’t know how to react when she says these things. Take her seriously and I get told that I should “know” she’d never do anything. Don’t take her seriously and I’m not a good friend and I don’t care. She’s ill and she’s struggling. I want to help.

My mum died by suicide so this is a bit triggering hearing things like this and I get worried.
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Sorry your friend is a dick doing this to you given what happened with your mum. It's totally unfair of her to put you through this.
 
I was relaxing at home on Saturday night, about to head to bed when a hate crime took place at my home. I ended up having the police in my living room at midnight. They were very responsive in fairness.

But I feel like this is the final straw. I honestly don't know how much more I can take.

I feel like I'm at capacity for dealing with stress.
 
Shimmering said:
I was relaxing at home on Saturday night, about to head to bed when a hate crime took place at my home. I ended up having the police in my living room at midnight. They were very responsive in fairness.

But I feel like this is the final straw. I honestly don't know how much more I can take.

I feel like I'm at capacity for dealing with stress.
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I’m so sorry. How awful. 😞
 
Shimmering said:
I was relaxing at home on Saturday night, about to head to bed when a hate crime took place at my home. I ended up having the police in my living room at midnight. They were very responsive in fairness.

But I feel like this is the final straw. I honestly don't know how much more I can take.

I feel like I'm at capacity for dealing with stress.
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I truly hope you are OK.
 
Shimmering said:
I was relaxing at home on Saturday night, about to head to bed when a hate crime took place at my home. I ended up having the police in my living room at midnight. They were very responsive in fairness.

But I feel like this is the final straw. I honestly don't know how much more I can take.

I feel like I'm at capacity for dealing with stress.
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I hope you’re ok, sending love.

I’m ok after my previous problems, tired but generally ok. It’s like a never ending grind to just get through the week.
I’m doing ok at my job, but then you get home and there’s the food shop, cooking and cleaning up afterwards to do.
It’s not a bad life I guess but I do wish for some proper rest. I’m on Mirtazapine which helps but has some side effects like all pills. I feel like I could sleep for England and the house suffers for it.
 
Really struggling this eve. Work is exhausting and then I log off (sort of, I can never help myself logging on later in the evening and then stressing out even more) after fire fighting all day and struggling to progress major pieces of work, to cook dinner, wash dishes and hang laundry. Was so excited to get to half term and now my 15 year old has kicked off, won't tell me what's wrong and has gone to bed at 7pm clearly upset but refusing to talk. So now i will worry and worry and spiral all evening. I just can't go on like this much longer. I feel like everything is a struggle and no-one is happy despite all my best efforts and all the sacrifices I make. I don't know what the point of it all is.

I find parenting teens so hard and so lonely. I don't want to confide in people because it makes them sound like selfish shits and I don't want to embarrass them.
 
Shimmering said:
I find parenting teens so hard and so lonely. I don't want to confide in people because it makes them sound like selfish shits and I don't want to embarrass them.
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Nobody tells you how hard it is parenting teens. I swear ta god I would have quite happily gone back to the toddler years rather than be parenting my teen. It was bloody hard. How my tongue wasn't split in half with all the biting of it I did I'll never know. Shes 19 now and I couldn't be prouder òf the young woman she's become
 
skronkywildcat said:
Could you give me the link to the lost a parent thread? I looked but I couldn’t find it.
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Here you go lovely x

Dead Parent Club

Just wondering if anyone else is in the Club? I lost my mum ten years ago this month 💔 and my dad last year. I hate being an orphan and being known as the “girl with dead parents” ! I dream about my parents quite often, sometimes it’s a do-over of the past, and they are ill again, or it’s a...
tattle.life
 
I feel like I've turned a corner this past week. Maybe the half term break was just we needed. I've worked the whole week but it's been quiet enough and I've managed to progress a major piece of work. My kids have been a lot calmer and easier to deal with and we've actually spent quality time together. The police have been in touch regarding the crime I reported and they are dealing with it.

Sadly my best friend who I talk to daily and meet up with regularly is struggling terribly with her mental health at the minute so she has retreated into herself as that is how she copes. I want to be the best support I can be to her. I just really miss our daily chats.
 
Lack of sleep has got me finished off at the minute. 5 days a week I'm getting woken up by my husbands alarm . I'm so tired and I'm angry because it's a sharp shock to wake up. I feel like it's torture .

I've done so many stupid things lately and I'm sure its because I'm so tired I can't function properly.
 
Kim Mild said:
Lack of sleep has got me finished off at the minute. 5 days a week I'm getting woken up by my husbands alarm . I'm so tired and I'm angry because it's a sharp shock to wake up. I feel like it's torture .

I've done so many stupid things lately and I'm sure its because I'm so tired I can't function properly.
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Can you tolerate earplugs? Or get him an under pillow vibrating alarm?
 
Kim Mild said:
Lack of sleep has got me finished off at the minute. 5 days a week I'm getting woken up by my husbands alarm . I'm so tired and I'm angry because it's a sharp shock to wake up. I feel like it's torture .

I've done so many stupid things lately and I'm sure its because I'm so tired I can't function properly.
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I bought a sunrise alarm clock which finishes its sunrise routine with the radio coming on and it has made the mornings so much better. Granted, I’m the person who needs to be up early rather than MrDragName so he does tend to turn it off when we don’t need it, but it’s so much nicer than the pain of an iPhone alarm or alarm clock!
 
Kim Mild said:
Lack of sleep has got me finished off at the minute. 5 days a week I'm getting woken up by my husbands alarm . I'm so tired and I'm angry because it's a sharp shock to wake up. I feel like it's torture .

I've done so many stupid things lately and I'm sure its because I'm so tired I can't function properly.
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Sleep deprivation is the worst, see if you can change the sound of it for the time being. Sounds extreme but I’ve used ear defenders too (not the most comfortable) but tolerable.
 
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