Also feeling down

hazydays

I've suffered with bouts of depression my whole life my mum has also suffered and even tried to kill herself.
I am very aware of how I feel. I'm so lonely, I have no friends - yes I have people who call themselves my friends but no one called to visit me over christmas the only people who text or rang to say happy new year were my husbands family and friends I have no one at all other than my mum who, when things are going well for her is too busy to visit and only rings or visits when she has a disaster she needs me to fix.
I'm a stay at home mum who's husband works nights so all my time is with the kids or home alone in the evenings, once again I find myself so sad I'm crying regularly over nothing in particular and not sleeping coz I can shut my mind off from thinking,
i tried the meds and counsellng - my gp would only give me meds on a month to month basis providing I attended the counselling, I can't see this helping again as the cbt theripist's solution was to change the things that are bothering me in my life and think differently but its hard to make friends and start groups to meet people when my evenings are trapped at home without a babysitter and my days are full with my kids I know when my 2year old starts playschool next year I'll have time for myself again but what do I do til then???

Ickle Magoo

Hi hazydays,

I've moved your post and given you your own thread so that the replies in the other thread are pertinent for the poster that started it only.

Ickle.