Mental Health Check In 1/17

[penguin129]

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Diagnosis/personal issue or struggle:

Recent related difficulties/vent:

What you're working on/trying to do/would like to do to improve your recent difficulties/mental health:

QOTW/GTKY: What is one thing you enjoy doing alone?

[penguin129]

Diagnosis/personal issue or struggle: PPA

Recent related difficulties/vent: Thinking about what to do with AG next year in regards to school/pre-k is giving me anxiety. Also I have my appointments with the new Mental Health place next Monday and Tuesday and I'm anxious about that. They are doing their own evaluation. Oh, and the Home Nurse comes on Wednesday.

What you're working on/trying to do/would like to do to improve your recent difficulties/mental health: I'm walking on an almost nightly basis by myself to give myself a break. Sometimes I just cry for a few minutes. I'm trying to get a set routine for winding down at night and aim to be in bed by 1030 P.

QOTW/GTKY: What is one thing you enjoy doing alone? My nightly walks.

[mg0202]

anxiety

Things have been going well. Really hectic right now, but hanging in there. We are still trying to get DS on a schedule which will help. We are slowly getting bedtime earlier so we have a little more time in the evenings.

The one thing that I have found that really helps me is that after work I spend about 10 minutes or so in the car before I have to pick the kids up. I read or play on my phone. Just those few minutes help me relax, get out of work mode and into mommy mode.

penguin129, DD will be 5 at the end of August. We have to decide to send her to kindergarten or not. As of now she is going. She is in preschool and I am basing some of the decision on the advice of her teachers. They say she is ready. I also am basing it on she is big for her age and fairly mature. She likes being around older kids. She has a lot of the knowledge with reading/writing/numbers that she will need to know before entering. It is a hard decision. My friends son is the same age and they are not sending him.

[penguin129]

Thanks mg0202. We are going to wait another year. I just have to see if she will still be able to get the free pre-k if we wait. I do teach her at home and she had plenty of social interaction with other kids at her activities.

[sanibel21]

Diagnosis/personal issue or struggle: Anxiety, depression

Recent related difficulties/vent:
DD1 transition to preschool, DD2 lip tie; I can't seem to just cope with difficult or emotional situations well. I do my best to hide it from my kids, but I spiral so hard.

What you're working on/trying to do/would like to do to improve your recent difficulties/mental health:
In the past month of forcing myself to take breaks and get away, I've really come to see the value of them. I actually was doing really well for a few weeks between that and setting stuff up to allow that. But dd1 freaking out on day 3 of preschool and dd2 getting a lip tie clipped all today sent me into a tail spin. But I've had enough good days with positive thinking, that I haven't been pulled under to hopelessness yet.

QOTW/GTKY: What is one thing you enjoy doing alone?
Anything really, but crochet, clean, coffee, tea, chocolate, TV, read