Quote Originally Posted by petrified View Post
I'm sorry you had such a bad day Joanna, it's horrible feeling so down :-( it's good you have your mum there you seem like you both have a great relationship. It's great you manage it with having such the big distance between you. I suppose it makes you treasure that time you spend together all the more. Hope you have a great day on Wednesday and its something to look forward too :-)
Thank you, Hannah!!! I do really treasure the time I get to spend with my Mum. She comes to visit us once a year and she stays for 6 weeks. The only problem with that is that 6 weeks is quite a long time and I inevitably have bad periods during that time and even though my Mum knows all about my issues and she is very understanding, it's still difficult because I want to be on good form for her and on some days I just can't be and then I feel guilty, which makes it worse!! Plus, she doesn't really get it about the anxiety or the depression because she doesn't understand WHY I feel like that. She keeps telling me what a nice life I have. And I do in many ways. But still, I'm anxious and depressed a lot. Also, I haven't been back to England to visit my Mum in 6 years now (because I've developed a phobia of flying and also because I can't stand to leave my dogs, even for a short time). Even though my Mum doesn't really give me a hard time about not having been back to England in so long, she does mention it and I know she is sad that I haven't been back. So I have a lot of guilt floating around!!!

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this nice positive thread!! It's still morning here so I haven't done anything positive yet. I will work on it and try and write a brief account of something positive I've managed to do by the end of today!

Wishing everyone else a good day! xxxx