depressedmom

Hi all. I'm having a horrible week. To start, I read an article talking about how a parent with depression affects the life of their child ... A month or more ago. It's just been sitting in my mind on a daily, so I try to keep things apart from my son that might scream depression, right? Not doing a good job, obviously. He is 6. He got upset yesterday and when I asked what was causing him to act in the way he was acting, he said 'I don't know! I just make everything bad. I make everything worse all the time!' Immediately, i dissolved into tears and told him he absolutely did no such thing. That he made ALL THE THINGS BETTER. That he mad the world better and brighter just for being himself. Y'all I feel like it's my fault he feels this way and now I'm paralyzed about ANYTHING I may say or do or not say or not do. What can I do?
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My 17 year old daughter (who inherited my depression) asked me today, "How do you do it? How do you push through?" I told her I focus on accomplishing just one thing. It might be putting in a load of laundry (only moving it once- washer and dryer is too overwhelming), or throwing out the junk mail in the stack of mail I haven't touched. I expend effort to not think about what else I should do. If I'm successful with the one thing, THEN I think about something else.
This is definitely not the life skills lesson I imagined teaching my daughter...
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