July Should Be Mom’s Mental Health Month

Today is the first days of school. I always forget how empty the days are while they are in school, but at the same time, I always find that the kid’s demand more and more out of me as the summer ends. July tends to be longer days with many more questions and requests, and as a mother, I find that I lose who I am as a person for an entire month. You know, your basic existential crisis. Only, it’s annually, in July, because school is out.

So, I wind up exhausted, lost, and usually one mental breakdown away from scarring my children so horribly that they will need therapy. Not in the physical sense, just in the fact that momma looks like a crazy person who absolutely does not have her shit together and is losing her sanity one little shred at a time.

July should be Mom’s Mental Health Month. Because everyone should be made aware that we are, in fact, not ok, and we need to be noticed before we crash and burn, or worse, cause trauma on our families…..jokes, of course….just jokes…..