Overstimulated mom

[b]STOP[/b]. Breathe. Breathe again, 3 seconds in, 5 seconds out. Feel the air moving in your lungs and oxygenating your head. Relax and breathe one more time.

Now...you've got a lot going on, anyone can see that. Right now, I'm guessing it seems like a garage just packed full of stuff you can't even identify. We have to get through that mess. But here's the good part: It's one tiny step at a time.

If I'm right, these are some issues you're having.

Poor finances and inadequate health insurance
Some physical pains
An active, curious son
Managing your environment
changing your eating patterns

Let's start with that, with naming some issues and taking away their monstrous power. Often, physical symptoms, conditions and pains are the reflection of the struggles in your head and heart. You may well find that with reduced stress things like psoriasis and acnes, even aches and pains, diminish. The best way to effect that right now is to do anything you've been asked by a professional and take 5 minutes to yourself each day. On the bed, on the toilet, in a closet, out on the sidewalk - take 5 minutes to re-center your spin. Every day. No matter what. [And I'm not a medical professional, but duct tape faithfully placed over a plantars wart will reduce it over time by starving it of oxygen.]

Eating vegetarian or vegan is an opportunity to put quality nutrition into your body and it's easier than ever before. I'm sure plenty of people here would offer you some great tips and recipes. Make your bed and keep a clean home. Every day. Making a bed may do nothing for anyone else in the world, but it can represent a promise you made to yourself and kept, and it makes your environment more tolerable. Get through school. If you have to beg childcare, take out loans, live on less sleep...that education is like a sackful of diamonds; it will get you further and make you richer than anything else you can imagine and it will enhance your child's life. Money will be more plentiful and work benefits ease your healthcare needs in higher employment positions.

[i]More than anything,[/i] you're doing everything you can and you're fighting like hell. That counts. If you're head's going below the surface, call out for help; others will come. You've made mistakes and you've had successes and your road will have been one worth walking for the destination you find. But you have to help yourself first. One hand for the ship, one hand for yourself.

But start with breathing and the knowledge you're not alone in the Universe. Hang in there.

WOAH Nelly...

Take a breathe honey.... then take another one... and another one... lets deal with 1 thing at a time. 1 thing you can control....
What can you actually control in a whirlwind like that?

What sort of work does your sons father do?