When you're pregnant and people tell you not to stress or it will harm your baby? It's just about as effective as saying "don't look up." As if we have enough going on, now we have to feel guilty about stressing--which makes us more stressed!

Due to family pressure and abuse (including sick blackmail about harming my unborn nephew), I attempted suicide. I'll always have this scar now. I got a counsellor who suggested I talk to them. I told them what I'd done. My mother's response? "Bullshit." This is just the last in a long line of reasons why I've cut off from them. And you know? For the first time in years I've found that daily life doesn't have to be miserable and stressful. I didn't realise how tightly wound I was until they were gone. I don't regret this, but I hope that one day things will change and we can rekindle things.

So sorry to say this but since I have detached myself from my drama daughter my life is so less stressful. I know she is well and the kids are with their dad so I can actually relax. She makes terrible decisions and I am tired of bailing her out. Love mom

2 pregnancies 2 kids. One wasn't breathing when he was born- glad I was in a hospital. One had fetal anemia and had to have a blood transfusion in utero. 8 and 5 years old and they still stress me out!

Sometimes being a SAHM can be very nice and relaxing. I think it's funny how some will paint every day as this frantic rush to do ten thousand things before the day is out. I occasionally have a crazy day but not usually. Today after I got the kids up and fed we took a stroll in the park, came home, I did some wash while the kids played and now I've got lunch working the oven, listening to music and doing some online shopping. Stress? Oh yeah sure.

DH works all the time. He's home maybe two afternoon/evenings a week with me and our two teens. He thinks we should all be on our "best behaviour" and not have any sort of arguments or say anything that might make him have a bad time or cause stress. So if one of the kids starts sassing me or they start arguing with each other - he refuses to say anything to help resolve it. He just says - "Just drop it. I don't want to hear it. I'm trying to have some good family-time." He doesn't want to help me deal with any of the crap I hear and deal with on a daily basis. Nice.

I'm the type of person that loses weight when I stress. I've been so stressed lately that it's starting to get scary. People have been asking me what my secret is, other have started telling me it's time to stop dieting, enough is enough. I'm 5'4" and almost down to 100 lbs, before this I was at 130. Not sure what to do about it. I can only eat a few bites at meals.

Is there life after bankruptcy? I have finally admitted to myself I can't hang on financially anymore & I feel so ashamed and stressed. It's been coming for over a year, but I kept working hard and hoping for a miracle. I feel like a failure and like everyone will see this when they look at me. Then I look at the faces of my beautiful kids & I feel like a fraud for always putting on my happy face. But I will never let them suffer if I can help it.

I'm so tired and so stressed. Sometimes I just want nothing else but to give up.

I'm broke, overwhelmed, stressed-out and taken advantage of at times and this is only a very short list of the negatives. I sometimes feel like I could crack like an egg any moment. That said, I LOVE MY LIFE! I love who I am even if I don't always like me, I love my life even if I hate it at times. I am ALIVE. Such a simple miracle we all seem to forget or take for granted. We are not guaranteed any specific amount of time to be alive. LIVE. ENJOY! Find what makes you happy, even the smallest of things, no matter how insignificant they may seem.