Can anyone offer any encouragement please? I'm exhausted. Just the thought of the effort involved in changing the duvet cover has reduced me to tears. I stood and cried over preparing dinner last night because I just hadn't got it in me to chop carrots. By the time I've done what HAS to be done each morning (get up, get washed, clean teeth, make bed) I've no energy left to do anything enjoyable. It's particularly bad with anything that involves heavy work with my arms - changing duvet cover, washing windows, lugging the vac upstairs. My poor hubby is lovely but I can't just sit around and let him do everything. Sometimes I think that if this is it, if things are going to be like this forever, I'm not sure I could handle it. I'm 53, my moods and energy levels have been all over the place for at least 10 years; in some ways it's the fact that I'm OK-ish one day but weeping and exhausted the next that's hardest to cope with - I keep thinking things are finally improving only for them to plummet the next day. I'm no use to anyone and hate the self-pity. It's like torture. I long to be happy and active like my old self. I look at women in magazines etc who are running businesses and walking up mountains and living their lives to the full and I feel pathetic and angry and very sad. Please tell me that this will improve. Any tips on dealing with this would be lovely. Sorry about wallowing. Thankyou.
