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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve had 2 kids in 2 years.  Over those 2 years I’ve gone from someone with a career I found interesting, who helped friends train for half marathons, who was able to be there for friends and family in meaningful ways to what feels like a shadow of a person that has a tiny life and serves no purpose beyond wiping noses and picking up toys.  I switched jobs over a year ago to one that was more family friendly and now work remotely with no coworkers to have fun with and I don’t feel any joy in the work, my pelvis is too wrecked to exercise at all and I can’t even find the time to get to physical therapy appointments in the hours they’re available to fix it, my body feels like a fat blob that leaks on everything and constantly smells of spitup, and I’m too tired to be a good friend or have a social life.

I feel like I’ve entirely lost what made me an individual person with connections, interests  and time spent on things beyond tending to two small kids.  My husband said he’d take them more on the weekends so I can “get a break” but I don’t even know what I’d do beyond go to Starbucks’s myself - I literally can’t think of anything I have in my life anymore.

Any ideas of how to get out of this mental funk? I’m already on a med for mild ppd.  I do enjoy my kids - I just don’t enjoy the shell of a person I’ve become.[/quote]

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