You Know You Need Help

Every morning you struggle to get out of bed. It’s all you can do to stumble downstairs for some coffee. You help your family get ready for their day, but you’re in a fog. There’s no energy to take a shower. You grab juice and toast because you feel shaky, and need to sit down. It’s only 8 am.

By mid day, you’re having another energy crash. You’d rather lay down, but life has so many demands. You have to keep going, and pour another cup of coffee. Your heart pounds, and the thought passes your mind – why does it have to be like this?

Suppertime crept up on you. You forgot about cooking, and now you’re out of energy. So you pull some chicken nuggets and fries from the freezer – again. You feel guilty, and add a frozen vegetable to the meal. It’s all you have energy for.

Bedtime is later than you would like. But you finally get in bed… and cannot sleep. Your mind races with everything you feel you did wrong. You worry about the future. So you comfort yourself with potato chips and chocolate.

The cycle starts over again the next day. Something has to change, but you’re completely stuck, and you don’t know how to get out of the cycle. But you don’t have to stay here.