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is what I feel normal

  • 08-05-2011 09:32PM
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭


    hi,

    I will try and keep this short. My grandad passed away less than two weeks ago, and then exactly a week later, my mam was taken to hospital and she really isnt well. She has way to many things to name. Lets just say its not looking good. It was my mothers dad that passed away. Most of my mothers illness is from years of alcohol abuse and smoking. My dad passed away several years ago, and she went downhill from there.
    To add to all this, my brother is on drugs and needs help, and my mother was also a career for my younger sister.
    Okay so this leads to myself, I have suffered with depression and anxiety for years now, and for the most part, I am fine. Its just the last week, I am so angry and irratated, I snap for anything, I feel a ball of anger inside, and I want to scream, I get so wound up and sweaty and takes me ages to calm down. I have a little girl and everything she does is annoying me at the moment, she is a handful at times, but with me being like this it is making it worse.
    My question is, is this normal how I feel? I have been so busy looking after everyone else,
    that I am exhausted, and feel so lost.

    thank you for reading.


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  • #2
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    hi, is there anyone else who felt like this?? or share their experience?
    isthisnormal01 wrote: »
    hi,

    I will try and keep this short. My grandad passed away less than two weeks ago, and then exactly a week later, my mam was taken to hospital and she really isnt well. She has way to many things to name. Lets just say its not looking good. It was my mothers dad that passed away. Most of my mothers illness is from years of alcohol abuse and smoking. My dad passed away several years ago, and she went downhill from there.
    To add to all this, my brother is on drugs and needs help, and my mother was also a career for my younger sister.
    Okay so this leads to myself, I have suffered with depression and anxiety for years now, and for the most part, I am fine. Its just the last week, I am so angry and irratated, I snap for anything, I feel a ball of anger inside, and I want to scream, I get so wound up and sweaty and takes me ages to calm down. I have a little girl and everything she does is annoying me at the moment, she is a handful at times, but with me being like this it is making it worse.
    My question is, is this normal how I feel? I have been so busy looking after everyone else,
    that I am exhausted, and feel so lost.

    thank you for reading.


  • #3
    leitirmeas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭leitirmeas


    Hello all of what you have described is entirely normal for the child of an alcoholic. Remember it is not your fault. The only thing that helped me was Al-anon (google it and you will be able to find meetings in your county). Also counselling helped enormously, if your doctor is good go and see them , do not get medication, but ask for counselling. PM me if you want to know anymore. Best wishes


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