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Feeling Guilty about being down

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Submitted by Stepmom09 on Tue, 02/09/2016 - 12:40pm

Yesterday I blogged about just feeling down. (Feel free to read if you want) Well today I now feel guilty for feeling down.

Things are honestly going pretty good. Got great news about keep SS in his school when we move and I had a great workout. Today DH moved forward on a job he wants but also today was tough for him. He had to explain his past and just being a screw up as a teenager so now he thinks he won't move forward in the process. I honestly want to cry for him. He just feels so stuck.

Now I feel guilty for just being sad because I don't have anything to be sad about and all I want to do is lay in bed all day.

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Submitted by Stepmom09 on Tue, 02/09/2016 - 1:27pm

I feel guilty for not being happy when I am about to get everything I have been asking for for years.

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Submitted by NoWireCoatHanga... on Tue, 02/09/2016 - 3:26pm

Maybe it's anxiety. https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck I think you should read this guy. I spend a lot of time reading his writings and I find them very very insightful and entertaining and they often make me look within. I myself struggle with being codependent and take on other's people's feelings and feel responsbility for other's feelings and emotions that aren't mine. I'm getting better though! It's a journey.

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Submitted by LikeMinded on Tue, 02/09/2016 - 4:15pm

Hi,

I get it, you feel guilty about feeling down... because you think you should be grateful, happy, etc.

I agree with the above poster, guilt should be over something we've done, not something we feel. You are allowed to feel however you feel. Feelings are controlled by chemicals going through our brains, our gut, our glands... there are so many things involved.

Although we can try to change how we look at something, we can't *always* control our feelings.

Check out this article about depression:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/25/451169292/could-depr...

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Submitted by Stepmom09 on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 10:37am

I was worried/excited I was pregnant then my period started. I am feeling so much better today. I am so excited to take my BC out because I feel like sometimes it sends me on swings off when I am sad randomly around my time. But some months it happens and others it doesn't.

Thank you I will flaunt it Smile

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Submitted by Stepmom09 on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 9:25am

Seriously. It is just odd though because some months it happens and others it doesn't. I feel like there is no predictability to it.